Staticlone, Philadelphia hardcore punks, have returned with their latest single, “Red Eye.” Off their upcoming album Better Living Through Static Vision.
On the new LP you can hear Staticlone— which features vocalist George Hirsch, bassist Dave Walling, and drummer Jeff Ziga— channel everything from crust to metal, and the hardcore punk they’ve all been steeped in for decades.
At his core, Hirsch is a storyteller. Go back and listen to anything he’s ever done and you’ll see it in the unflinching honesty of his lyrics and hear it in his heartfelt vocals. On Better Living Through Static Vision that poetry is paired beautifully with some of the catchiest, heaviest music out there.
The lyrics on the album, all written by Hirsch, focus on themes of alienation and loss. Over the course of the last few years, he moved to Chicago and then back home to Philly. He says the album closer “Red Eye” is about “…a few moments of clarity I had while taking a train across the United States. One was ending my previous band, realizing I was not made to make music with other people. I was to stick to bedroom recordings, and cut out having to pretend to like or be connected to people just because they play an instrument. I’ve since gone back on this realization (let’s see how that goes) with Staticlone.” He continues, “I’ve never romanticized or even understood the American dream of ‘going west.’ I am an East Coast person. It’s convenient, and based in reality. Moving to Chicago was west enough for me, they have Lou Malnati’s and Trouble, why travel any further past that?”
Are you rocking with Staticlone’s “Red Eye”?
