Alt Rockers Wax On Water Deliver A Musical Tapestry With "The Drip (Part 2)" EP

Camden alt rockers Wax on Water have released their new EP “The Drip (Part 2)” and it’s crafted in quite an ambitious way: a brave patchwork of influences and motifs transformed into something uniquely their own. Previous EP “The Drip (Part 1)”, out end of last year, similarly showed the band were accomplished at weaving a complete myriad of genres and influences (rock, grunge, industrial and more) and melding them together to produce something unusual and certainly ear-catching.

The first track on “The Drip (Part 2)” is electro rock banger “You Know When You Know”, detailing the headiness of falling in love and underscored with an anthemic “Hey Hey Hey…” Second track is the guitar led “The Wrong Way” which has a kind of a ‘You’re So Vain’ vibe that leads into more than a few recognisable classical guitar riffs, including the odd playful dip into reggae. Sounds bizarre? Yes it is - but, oddly, it works by taking you on a sensory musical journey weaving in and out of musical ‘dioramas’. “Dumb Me” is clearly a personal theatrical testimony of depression and dark introspection punctuated by piano and electro drums and yet more classic guitar motifs (which indeed clearly run through the EP.) “In The Shadows” ruefully ruminates on relationship loyalties and has a very eclectic pattern of melody which kind of takes you in and out of conflicting moods (no idea if this was intentional but that’s my take on it, and it seems to work as a device.) Final track “All Over Me” starts off sounding like a Big Country-esque Scottish rallying cry and then switches into a simpler poppier pattern rock and switching again into a grungier hook. It flips back and forth, ably depicting a sense of things (relationships) fracturing and falling apart and descending into smoking ruins.

The songs on this EP are like a curious musical tapestry, stitched together and put through the Wax on Water reinvention machine. Really interested to see if the EPs give a full flavour of the forthcoming album of the same name landing this June. Inventive seems to be Wax on Water’s middle name so I would bet there may well be a few welcome surprises on there too. In the meantime, go check it out “The Drip (Part 2)” EP on Spotify now and whet your appetite for this summer’s album release.

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