SONGS YOU SHOULD HEAR: WILD IRE – “POETRY & PUPPETRY”
BAND: Wild Ire
SONG: “Poetry & Puppetry”
SOUNDS LIKE: Vaudeville alt-rock for fans of Incubus, Muse, Queen
ABOUT THE TRACK: Recently returned from performing at this year’s NAMM conference, prog-pop quartet Wild Ire from Salem, OR has arrived with a new music video and single called “Poetry & Puppetry.” Like a crooning, alt-rock marionette, vocalist Jake Mayes is strung up by various binds to represent the different types of control in a relationship.
“I based a lot of the lyrics on relationships I’ve witnessed in which their partners controlled them much like puppets,” says guitarist Jesse Palmer. “In the video, we used a bed sheet to represent sexual control; an ethernet cable to represent text, phone and technological control; and then we used rope, lock and chain just to show physical and violent control.“
The delightfully theatrical video for “Poetry & Puppetry” serves to enhance the song’s dynamic cocktail of indie, jazz, rock, and funk. It’s a genre-fluid track that continues the vaudeville vibe the band first introduced on their debut single “Ragtime Gal,” which has over 300K streams on Spotify.
SOCIALS:
http://www.facebook.com/wildireband
http://www.instagram.com/wildireofficial
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EMQXaDvnX8SfzmEds9U3u?si=M68Iu7CFSL6_A9a7AwDXeQ
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