Lounge Society by Piran Aston
The Lounge Society have posted a live performance of Generation Game to coincide with the US presidential election.
Already one of 2020’s standout tracks – a younger voice put in the shoes of the elder generation which continues to confound them – its lyrical content seems particularly apposite at this time of year, and it’s back to The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge for this blistering version, recorded during the last vestiges of live music in 2020.
“The Lounge Society mean business,” our Presents review reads. “Generation Game is an immediate call to arms; smoky atmospherics against an art-pop strumming of guitar set the scene gently before Cameron Davey slaps you in the face with striking lyrics.The rest of the band join in as the pace of the track quickens before dropping at the three-minute mark to restore some dreamy serenity to proceedings.”
“The finale is a frenetic outro where guitars are attacked and drums are battered, like Working Men’s Club covering The Fall, as Davey sings the coda, ‘what will the U.S. do?’.”
