Start My Life As A Martyr

Spike Fuck “Getting Sober” “Getting Sober” is a type of boogie rock song that was old fashioned back when Marc Bolan and David Bowie made it the basis of glam over 50 years ago. It’s foundational rock music – groovy and flamboyant, sexy but silly, tapped into cultural roots but unapologetically artificial. There’s a lot of glam pastiche, but I think what Spike Fuck is doing here is a lot more sincere and heartfelt than straightforward genre emulation. They’re tapping into a tradition in the hope of finding something distinct about themselves within it. To unlock something, to see themselves from another angle. And while the song is explicitly about getting clean, the emotional center is about learning to see themselves a new way. Listen to how much feeling goes into how they sing the chorus “every time I look in the mirror I see…” The phrasing changes a little, like they’re trying it on, getting used to it before really owning it: “I see what is, and what could have been.” Buy it from…