After a flurry of activity in support of their late 2016 sophomore LP, Chocolate, MammaBear spent much of last year in relative quiet, performing the occasional one-off show and writing their third full length. Since the start of 2018, however, Kyle Gordon and company have been back in full swing, announcing details of their upcoming LP, dropping new music and visuals, and heading back out on tour.
“My House” is the first single from the band’s forthcoming SAY and it essentially underscores everything that makes the trio so potent and worth listening to: ragged, fuzz-heavy riffs and anthemic hooks delivered with buckets of raucous energy. It’s a common formula, but it’s one that MammaBear do indispensably well, popping off gritty garage-punk rhythms and frantic guitar squalls like so many jumbled strands of M-80s.
Shot by frequent collaborator Nick Rhodes of Atlanta’s Coalesce Films, the video does everything in its power to match the song’s bull-rush pacing with plenty of rapid-fire cuts and grimy psychedelic lighting. Much of its fiery intensity stems from the band’s performance sequences, which more often than not comes off as precariously unhinged. It’s rare that I’ll point to a single work as emblematic of a band’s core essence, but with “My House” I might just have to make an exception.
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