CARSEX Level Up With Scorching New Track "Crooked Canvas"

CARSEX is an edgy, punk and metal influenced band out of Long Beach, CA. They have leveled up their game with the release of their new single “Crooked Canvas”. The song, which was produced by Steve Evetts (Sepultura, Alesana, Poison the Well, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Butcher Babies) is their clarion call for people to pay attention to who – and what – they support. They rail against blind fealty to leaders of political parties, and just following the herd to whoever the latest cult personality is. They want to make people aware of what they are buying into, when they are buying the latest buzzy thing.

The song kicks off with a spoken word warning from singer Nigel Burk, who uses his microphone as a bullhorn: He grabs you by the ears immediately and you know right away that this is a song you should pay attention to. Have you ever experienced the sensation you get when you open a hot oven and a blast of heat hits you in the face that is intense and startling? That’s what happens once guitarists Shane Lausch and Justin Jolley kick into high gear with their fierce opening machine-gun riffs. Drummer Max Gomez and Bassist Jeremy Schott provide a rock-solid foundation of rhythm to the song, and we’re off to the races for 2 minutes and 30 seconds of hypersonic maelstrom that gives no quarter.

In talking about the song, Burk says “Crooked Canvas’ is about the metaphorical wool being pulled over people’s eyes and the blind, general consumption of what’s being put forth. Whether it’s politics, religion, what shoes to buy, which pill will make your dick bigger. It’s about consumerism at its finest and my utter distaste for it”.

Bassist Schott adds “The music video was shot by our pals Brad Walther and Jason Lazo at Big Walrus Productions in Long Beach. We worked with them on our last video for “Your Generation”. We shot the video on a church set, keeping with the theme of the song being about the public being told how to think and what to consume – and blindly doing so. Steven Burhoe of Plague Productions edited the video”.

The band’s name is apropos, as their amped-up sound is what the name implies: Sleazy, primitive, uncomfortable & just as good as your friends told you it’d be.

Forged by the survivors of Long Beach music scene bands Damned Age, Black Velvet Brigade, and Red River Massacre, the five music veterans in CARSEX have slugged it out in the clubs of Orange County, California for more than 10 years. While performing shows in these various groups on the circuit they became friends over time. As the bands they were in either dissolved or changed direction – they decided to form under a new banner with shared musical tastes & goals, and CARSEX formed in 2018. Their sound is a mix of Circle Jerks/Black Flag/The Germs, with Danzig, Fu Manchu & a bit Queens of the Stone Age blended into a potent combination. They play hard and loud with no hint of an apology.

The band has previously released 2 EPs: 2019’s CarSex and 2020’s 2020 EP, which featured the singles “Your Generation” and “Lovesick”. A new EP is being finalized and will be released later this summer.

CARSEX is very much a live band, and shows are currently being booked to support the release of “Crooked Canvas” and the upcoming EP. They’ve opened for Stillwell (Fieldy from Korn’s Band), The Obsessed, Mondo Generator, Suicide Silence, Unsane, Dead Poet’s Society, Narcoleptic Youth, and O’Zorn!, among others.

This is my first exposure to CARSEX, but it won’t be the last – they make for compelling listening. I can’t wait to see what they have in store for us as their career continues to develop.

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