You know how I am. You know I spend my life seeking out “the sound.” The sound that makes me want to drive the car just a little faster. The sound that inspires kitchen dancing without caring that the neighbors can see me bopping around in the middle of the day.
When someone like me finds “the sound” it’s like finding gold.
Look, there are a lot of great songs coming out these days, there really are. But some just hit a person in a distinct way, and I’m sorry I can’t articulate what that is for me, I just know it when I hear it.
Perilous consistently deliver “the sound”.
Maybe it’s because the four members of Perilous seek that same sound, the sound that is perfectly suited to rock n roll dive bar stages where the walls sweat in the summertime from the energy within. Where the names of Iggy, Johnny, Joey and Debbie are spoken with reverence. Where leather jacketed “cool cats on the prowl” buy dollar PBRs with their friends. Like the kids say, if you know, you know.
Perilous have decided to follow up their amazing debut CD “Yeah!!!” with a series of summer singles delivered on the first Friday of each month and as I write this, that’s where we find ourselves and I could not be happier.
“Dear Heart” available starting today takes Perilous’ sound to a new level. A radio ready track that will have you pressing that accelerator just a little harder on your punk rock/power pop open window drive up the parkway. Kicking off with Bob Cat’s freight train of a guitar riff with the driving back beat of Renee on Bass and Paul on Drums holding it together just in time for one of rock n roll’s great voices in Pauline. “Dear Heart” wastes no time in getting right to the groove.
A song of imperfect love with imperfect people that strives to persevere through the baggage we all carry with us. A song that nods to the failings all of us have dealt with in our lives and sung with a heart trying to take those old blemishes on our spirit and put them behind us with hope. “Dear Heart” is a charmingly beautiful rock n roll ode to faith and hope going forward.
Produced by the great Kurt Reil of The Grip Weeds, the track is a highly polished single featuring layered guitars and sing along backing vocals that I am sure will make its way to outlets like Underground Garage, WFMU, This is Rock n Roll Radio with Dana and Carl and just about any other outlet that true believers turn to looking for their fix. (The backing vocals are incredible.)
I’m on a constant search for “the sound” and that hasn’t diminished as I’ve gotten older, in fact it’s probably gotten more intense. From the moment I first heard Perilous, to this day, I know I can always find it with this band, and “Dear Heart” is a band delivering that sound on an upward trajectory and thank god for it.
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