Cigar Club double your pleasure with the smouldering new singles Ocean Potion and Dark Market — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
Contrasting yet complementary, the Toronto rockers’ tracks both pulse with the same fuzzy guitar tone, making them two sides of the same coin — sonic fraternal twins, if you will. Dark Market is full of shadowy strut and swagger, infused with a dirty, gritty ’70s vibe reminiscent of Arctic Monkeys. The song pounds with suspense and a gray, hazy feeling of malaise you just can’t quite put your finger on:
“Now you roll around the east of town
Where the creases in the streets pound through the seats into your soul
Falling and you can’t climb back now
Summer had danced with a frown
And an extended hand your fingers had found but it was cold.”
“This song came together almost in a blur,” recalls drummer Tyler Booth. “I remember hearing the chorus riff for the first time from guitarist Trevor Coughlin. That fat, fuzzy, in your face tone he had coming out of his Fender Bassman… I knew there was potential.”
On the flipside, Ocean Potion is slow and sensual, a swaying and sashaying ballad with tinges of blues and soul. It’s teeming with lost love and regret and frustrated passion, and it slowly works itself into a froth of rock ’n’ roll.
“These two songs were written around the same time, and you can tell from that buzzy guitar tone,” guitarist and singer Dan Amato-Gauci says. “Ocean Potion, however, is a mellower interpretation in comparison to Dark Market. The song always felt right, I don’t really know how else to describe it. It’s familiar, like you’ve almost felt the song before — the feelings it portrays live deep in the memory.”
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