‘Pressure Cooker’ was already a pretty fleshed-out Dazy song when Militarie Gun entered the picture, but it takes more than a Venn diagram approach to collaboration, instead using it as a chance to tread unexplored territory. On the surface, it’s the sort of hooky alt-rock jam that Dazy’s James Goodson amply supplies on his solo material, but vocalist Ian Shelton manages to inject it with the spirit of hardcore – not by screaming, but with the bits he adds in the background or just before belting out the chorus – while Justin Pizzoferrato’s mixing helps balance out any potentially opposing elements.
Things just sort of keep piling up, and no sing-along anthem this year made it quite so easy to join in the commiseration.
released March 14th, 2022
Written by Dazy & Militarie Gun.
Dazy recorded at home.
Dazy & Militarie Gun performing “Pressure Cooker”
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