The players in King Falcon stand before us in the video for their latest single, their music fills the backdrop with a presence just as strong as any concert hall experience I would expect to find this group giving.
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Their melody is swaggering, but their rhythm is pendulous and tension-building. In the video for “Ready Set Go,” we’re invited to sit amongst the many who have been following their brand of hard rock all year long in a performance that goes unmatched this summer. The violence of the guitars will thrust us into the heart of the vortex of rather sleek harmonies, but in the shadow of the sonic war, we discover a side to this band that they’ve only hinted at exposing to us in past releases. King Falcon is back and better than ever in “Ready Set Go,” and the reception their latest video is getting is a testament to their reputation in the industry today.
This song is as texturally expressive as it is lyrically enigmatic, and by that, I mean that every piece of its musical puzzle is used as a means of telling us a story. There have been scores of tracks released this season that could be described as totally verse-driven, but that isn’t the case here at all; contrarily, for every riddle that the words rattle off in our direction, there’s a melody to provide us contextual clarity to the narrative being unfurled before us. It takes a lot of chemistry between members of a band to get to this level of seamless conveyance, but King Falcon somehow makes it look all too easy in this piece.
I do think that the vocalist could have benefited from more of a kick just ahead of the chorus, but I can completely understand why the group decided to go a different way when they were mastering “Ready Set Go.” In making the guitars just as overwhelming a force as any of the other components in this single are, we never stop feeling the grip of their grooves, which definitely wouldn’t have been the case if the vocal was given a standard showing the chorus. King Falcon is too talented a band to toy with such trite predictability, and even if their music is less conventional because of it, my gut tells me that they’re all the prouder for being as unique as they are.
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“Ready Set Go” is, in my opinion, the alternative rock anthem that we needed this summer, as it does everything that the genre’s most potent gems have offered in the past while firmly looking ahead into the unknown territories of the future. Surreal songwriting has become a big fad in the last couple of years specifically, but I don’t get a trend vibe from this release at all. Since their inception, King Falcon has done an excellent job of setting itself apart from the pack by taking concepts other groups have failed at experimenting with and making them original, multidimensional formulas for rock greatness. Their journey is far from over, but I’ll go out on a limb and say that this is its most exciting phase to date.
Clay Burton