San Diego indie rock band, Drug Hunt, just dropped this slow-burning, bluesy proto-psych track, “Through The Night.”
Paired with haunting vocals and lyrics, the band belts out a sped-up, reverb-veined, crunchy retro rock jam in the final stretchs of the track.
The track marks a new and refined sound from the hardened proto-psychedelia they first astonished the scene with.
From band’s publicist:
Recorded at the infamous Big Fish studio in Southern California with engineer Jordan Andreen (Earthless, The Damned) and featuring Adrian Terrazas-Gonzalez (Mars Volta) on saxophone… “Through The Night” manages to capture a sunday drive stroll, a bank robbery, a high speed pursuit and climactic cliff dive in a 1970 Buick Skylark.
“Through The Night” is 3 part epic with three sequential ingredients; one part nocturnal psychedelia, one part frenetic desert rock, and a finishing dollop of manic blues.
This array of genre-bending hallucinations is nothing new for the band. In the past they have been referred to as “Tarantino-esque” in their ability to take source material and mold it to their own likings.
But what is different here is the ‘mise en place’ they’ve developed over the years. The music is mischievously raw, yet meticulously measured and tested.
The narrative is also broken into three distinct parts, and resembles the onset of an existential episode turning deeper and deeper against its narrator. Lyrically the song meanders down the dark alleyways of an urban hellscape; through creepy avenues of inner monologue we glimpse the reflection of our frail minds, “I saw you walking through the night, terror filled the darkness in your eyes… there are no colors in your mind”. In this state we are subjected to our own hindrances, traumas, and addictions.