Erupting out of nowhere like its ground-quaking namesake, Miranda and The Beat unleashed their latest track with the suddenness of a California tremblor.
"Earthquake Water" is propelled at a brilliantly nervous cadence that rattles and shakes with skeletal severity, set off by shotgunning a mystery mix of dubiously liquified chemical uppers. Undercut by wavering keys that shimmer like a low-grade fever slowly percolating into full-blown flop sweats, the track is shot through with a palpable sense of unsteadiness that seemingly liquifies the pavement underfoot into a jelly-like substance almost comedic in its perilousness. Chugging guitars burst and fracture into jagged spikes that punctuate with Richter-busting dynamism combined with a funky bassline that adds a deliriously elemental boogie-down groove to the increasingly manic chant "gimme another sip of that earthquake water!"
Tapping directly into the feral unpredictability of the band’s live sets interspersed with streetwise footage of frontwoman Miranda Zipse prowling the concrete jungle in full regalia, the video for “Earthquake Water” encapsulates the captivating destruction of a natural disaster unleased with all its fury upon an unsuspecting public. The landscape left in the wake of such awe-inspiring devastation is never the same, eternally altered by the heaving tectonics. The world can be remade in the image of the old, but even the deepest foundations are always shaking from the thrillingly intense sounds from the underground.
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