The subject matter of Spooky Cool’s music often pivots on annihilation of one form or another, whether such destruction concerns male ego and presumption or more biblical notions of the apocalypse. Vocalist Paula Lavalle joined Spooky Cool later that year, and she helps emphasize and augment the group’s more melodic components, while lead guitarist Zavi Harman, whose instrumental technique has its origins in math rock, became a permanent member soon after.
Hryciak, whose approach to vocal melodies and lyrics owes a great deal to Paul Simon, set out with his band to infuse this kind of songwriting with discordance and complex rhythmic and instrumental patterns, though without extreme sacrifice to the music’s harmonious and lyrically playful underpinnings. Lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Zac Hryciak began this project in 2015 alongside drummer Lee Spratley and bassist Sean Williams, musicians with whom he has been collaborating in one project or another for over a decade, as an effort to bring together contrasting musical sensibilities in a manner which was unfamiliar, yet intelligible. It therefore seems appropriate to give a summary of the band’s inception before anything else. The songs are too consistently kaleidoscopic, and never at ease in one feeling or one component for too long. It feels philosophical leaving open spaces to shove in shims of hope and love underneath the unpleasant weight (microcosmic and macro bruises and pain) of it all.Īttempting to describe Richmond’s Spooky Cool-not only their musical style, but also the emotions and ideas their music provokes-will always be a troublesome task.
The fertile mind of singer songwriter Zac Hryciak has patterned approaches and press notey stuff reveal that, a so called 'recurring tactic' for Zac and listening to other Spooky Cool tracks with their intricate puzzle pieced construction and almost Albert Brooks meets Thom Yorke lyrical bents, I feel a sort of life as a cosmic joke but not in a jokey sort of way at all. Like a sonic Rube Goldberg machine you might find your self listening a couple of dozen times trying to figure out how this mouse trap works. It is the kind of song that you can revel in for different reasons because so much is going on.
"Time Will Tell" by Richmond, Virginia based experimental, art indie rock outfit Spooky Cool is progressively drawn, nicely weird and wonky, super densely punchy and overall, with the askew poetic (maybe fatalistic, maybe not) lyrics, feels wonderfully surreal.
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