Oh the power and glory of over-driven drums. There’s really nothing quite like it when you’re looking for that crunch to get you out of bed. For Happy Lives, the band seems to broadcast an especially large sound using the barest of materials. From thrown-together harmonies that somehow reach their mark, to sideways guitar shredding, funky drum machines and yes.. destructively large drum samples, this is a band goes as far as they can towards a messy good time, before falling back into the catchiest groove you can imagine in tracks like ‘Brutus’ and my fave ‘Slacks and Slippers’ from their self-titled EP. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
