The Kickback: Exclusive previews
By Sam Burrish
Journal multimedia producer
Today The Journal’s Heard Mentality blog publishes two videos of The Kickback performing live, uncut versions of upcoming studio tracks.
Talks about a final Sioux City media appearance before the move led to a collaboration with the band and The Journal’s multimedia producer.
The idea was simple: An amped-up version of the Heard Mentality blog’s popular performance videos.
The live session highlight burns with “Snuff Film Credits.”
The song presents a vacuous soundscape deep with sonic voices conversing into a growing, undulating cadence that scratches the ceiling.
The song is “not literally about the act. Just a mental reel of things a man is thinking who is completely capable of something that harsh and sadistic,” Yost said. “The charming, terrifying last words he’s thinking he would like to say.
I read that the market for fake snuff films is off the charts in Japan. That was bizarre enough in itself to call for a song.”
The bony keys at first contrast damp, seductive vocals. And bass and kick drum eventually fill in the bottom.
The masterfully-layered song is highlighted by the antagonizing restraint of vocalist, Yost, who, along with old school keys, adds a tense under-wire that arches even the electronic chaos of the song’s robust climaxes and barren lows.
