Submarines – Declare A New State!
Still consumed by the bile and pathos of a failed relationship, singers and songwriters Blake Hazard and John Dragonetti reconciled in the studio over pop and psychedelic obsessions theyve since gotten married turning co-dependency into sad, sweet, intricate songs. Forgetting how to love, forgetting how to be alone, hating yourself for hating another, hating yourself for missing someone, using another to evade a deeper darkness the familiar emotions of love gone to hell return again and again. Detailed arrangements of electronica, acoustic strum, vocal layering and fuzzed guitars lift those emotions above the banal. Their catchiest song, Brighter Discontent, rises and falls like an answer to The Grand Tour by way of a Shirelles bridge. The Submarines have made a beautiful breakup album that finds peace and hate, hope and despair inseparable and inevitable, and all too human.