Unsigned Act Of The Week: Pusher

We’ve seen it with The Black Keys’ ‘Lonely Boy’. We’ve seen it with Radiohead’s ‘Lotus Flower’. Now, we’re being shown how to really lose yourself when dancing along to music once again, with Pusher‘s latest offering, ‘Let It Break.’

Phasing into life with an eerie-yet-enticing energy, this is a track that’ll captivate you from the get-go. Distinctive vocals resound with a haunting grandeur – reminiscent of Joy Division or Echo And The Bunnymen, and you’ll find no complaints of that here.

Layers of chiming guitars mix, entwine, and build, crafting a tapestry of sound you’re all too easily lost in. Swirling riffs and refrains lift the track a step out of the shadowy gloom that echoes through the vocals. But it’s the drumbeat that really drives this track: larger-than-life anthemic fills flood the track with a relentless power. Subsiding only to rush back with a rawer and more intense vigour, it’s a force that not even the bravest should dare reckon with.

James Gilroy’s vocals soar through the track with a strength capable of whisking you off your feet and to another place completely. Enchanting and compelling in equal measure, they serve as a perfect counterbalance to the hard edged refrains that create the rest of the track.

‘Let It Break’ is dark, gloomy, and everything we don’t want to be, as summer hits our senses. But there are exceptions to every rule, right? And with a video that involves this much frenetic dancing, we can’t think of a better season for it.

‘Let It Break’ is out now, via Genepool Records.

Jessica Goodman