♫♪  VATS - “Slow Eyes”

Sometimes, the person who brings the party is the exact opposite of who you’d originally dreamed would. Like that basement rock-night in the warehouse at the end of Kent — where Kent ends — and this group of dudes in golfing clothes show up, everybody be looking because they looking, eyes darting at their Titleist hats and Nike pleated shorts, theirs scanning the crowd up and down, and they spot it: the dirtiest fucker there. They approach this said “dirtiest fucker” and give him ALLLLL the drugs. Not just like Acid and Molly, but DMT, PCP, DXM, and even peyote tabs. “Dirtiest fucker” now looks like a million bucks. And is handing out drugs like mad. There’s a cloud of drugs that looms over the crowd. The music seeps everything.

VATS’ new video for “Slow Eyes” (off new album Today) is exactly this situation, only the hero (pony-tail out the back of a gardening hat; hawt; sw3g) actually stokes the band’s fire here by smacking them outta that Frank vibe everyone got going, and pumps the party in an unimaginable way. Like, I’ve never felt so happy about violence completely changing up a situation like this. So when the going gets tough, the VATS gets rocking. Easing in with a slow steady beat and chord progression, followed by a few lingering echoed vocals, and a henchmen-walk bass riff. But, as the title insinuates, “Slow Eyes” heats up into an energy that fades as quick as getting hit in the head by a baseball bat. Don’t think I’m real about this? Head to the VATS Bandcamp page, and scope their upcoming April shows. DON’T MISS OUT!!!

• VATS: https://vatsvatsvats.bandcamp.com

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