Review: Thumper by Molly Drag
Label: Forged Artifacts Words by Ryan Underwood & Luke Janke Thumper by Molly Drag Molly Drag's Thumper bursts to life with compellingly driven plucky guitar, piano and bass during opening track Last Words ; a soaring melodies are distant enough yet with an earnest closeness, building the song into a cacophony of noise and yearning. The project's heart and soul, Michael Hansford uses his calculated and melancholic voice to deliver damning words of both pain and empathy. His imagery and lyricism in what it's like to suffer shines particularly in a small line from the track Falling Back: " You swallow the light/ I am vomiting the dark " This has a sense of familiarity, evoking overlooked but very human emotions and giving us a comforting reminder that we all live and die, with the same impact of a similar Sufjan lyric in "Fourth of July" from 2015's Carrie & Lowell. It draws acute awareness that our own lives are just as weird a...