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Guerilla Toss “Cannibal Capital”

The tonal palette of “Cannibal Capital” is bright and super saturated, a throwback to the sort of indie music that was a few steps removed from kid’s music that was ubiquitous through the 2000s. But Guerilla Toss aren’t particularly twee, just energetic and colorful – the rhythm is twitchy and the lyrics express a gnawing, overwhelming and near-constant angst. It’s become rather banal for musicians to sing about anxiety now but Kassie Carlson takes an interesting wide angle on the ideas here, imagining emotions as a delicate economy prone to surging highs and crashing lows brought on by external factors. The chorus and bridge parts aim for ecstatic catharsis but don’t quite achieve escape velocity, maybe in part because that’s the part of the song where she’s wondering if escape is even possible. This metaphorical economy is just the same as real literal ones – you can imagine something much better, but could you ever actually make it happen?

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