"NEW CONSTELLATION"-TOAD THE WET SPROCKET
I've always been a sucker for a finely crafted pop-song with an upbeat, infectious hook. Well, the latest song to feature those ingredients comes from four guys who once orbited an alternative universe several light-years ago.
Who could forget Toad the Wet Sprocket? Okay, they may have been a bit "out there" when deciding on a group moniker -- (In fact, Rolling Stone recently listed TtWS as one of "The 13 Dumbest Band Names of All-Time") -- but you have to admit they did fill the Nineties with a string of memorable AAA tracks such as "Hold Her Down," "Walk On the Ocean," "Something's Always Wrong" and the classic "All I Want."
Well, after listening to the group's first new single in 17-years, it sounds like guys from Toad haven't missed one-small-step and are back on the launch-pad with their best opportunity to rocket up the pop charts since Galileo first probed Jupiter.
"New Constellation" is a starry-eyed singalong love-song that touches on astronomy as an analogy… including a middle-eight that appears to be a reference to solar winds and, yes… black holes. Lead vocalist Glen Phillips told Rolling Stone, "I wanted to come up with material that would respect our origins but also respect everything we'd learned in the intervening years. The lyric veers from outer space to patron saints to depression to heroic gestures of love in a quick, three-minute pop song."
Please, give this light and tight cosmic composition a spin because I'm confident you'll gravitate toward "New Constellation" after just one go-around as I did.
By-the-way… "New Constellation" is the title track to a brand-new Toad the Wet Sprocket studio album that has a launch-date of September 17th!
