"HARLEM"-NEW POLITICS
Are your ears tired? Listless? Run-down? Looking for that perfect piece of poppy punk to raise your energy level several notches?
Well, I just may have discovered the rock anthem of 2013!
It's a tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick BOOMing track called "Harlem" performed by three hyper Danes in Brooklyn who call themselves New Politics.
You may have already heard about these guys. It was only a couple of years ago when their debut single "Yeah Yeah Yeah" received moderate airplay on a handful of alternative radio stations, drew comparisons to the Hives, and was chosen as the theme to Dew Tour 2010. And like "Yeah Yeah Yeah," "Harlem" contains enough aural-caffeine to stimulate the alternative-rock lobe of your brain to keep the rest of your body pumped-up.
The party begins with cheerleader-like chants, a strong My-Sharonian backbeat, lyrics touting the frolicsome females of Upper Manhattan, all of which is held together by a kick-ass chorus: "When it gets loud, I turn it up! Shake it like a bad girl up in Harlem!" (Then there's a not-so-subtle nod to masturbation -- "Here come the jets, hide my money in your tube socks" -- that would make the Violent Femmes proud.)
"Harlem" is one of those tracks that works just as well as a Red Bull. Side effects may include heart palpitations, rhythmic foot tapping or, quite possibly, spontaneous car-karaoke. Listen liberally. And as John Lennon once instructed, "Play Loud!"
