Riptide

from Death Match (EP) by Spider

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“Riptide” and its driving bass line offers a hypnotic backdrop to lyrics that aim to capture the sturm and drang of art on one’s psyche. Filled with metaphors, the song is a call out to timelessness itself and to the instinctual feelings you get from the pull of art and the compulsion to create. The stream-of-consciousness chorus is a mantra that name-drops Darby Crash and Joe Strummer by their birth names and honors these punk rock lexicon warlords as the lyrical giants that have inspired our own songs."

lyrics

I bend the rules of social proof
I look for clues in the sophist's truth
The low level hum in the back of your mind
I've been through there, everything's fine

The beautiful trick that makes you tick
Love and loss and the infinite drift
The beautiful trick that makes you tick
Love and loss and the infinite drift

Life is short, death is long
Well I trade my life for this song
The end of the pen is a destiny
Radical love alchemy

The beautiful trick that makes you tick
Love and loss and the infinite drift
The beautiful trick that makes you tick
Love and loss and the infinite drift

Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor

As I feed your soul, I was on a tear
As I feed your soul, I was on a tear
Well, I almost there
Well, I almost don't care
Well, I'm almost not there
Well, I almost don't care

Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor

As I feed your soul, I was on a tear
As I feed your soul, I was on a tear

Well, I almost not there
Well, I almost don't care
Well, I almost not there
Well, I almost don't care

Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor
Loaded language and the seeds of war
Jan Paul Beahm, John Mellor

credits

from Death Match (EP), track released June 30, 2023
Produced By Spider and Dave Klein
Recorded at Dave Klein Recording
Engineered and Mixed by Dave Klein
Mastered By Jeff Abarta
Artwork: Brent Cheshire
Vocals: Hector Martinez
Guitar: Karl Izumi
Bass: Brian Seidel
Drums: Alf Silva
Backup vocals: Hector Martinez, Karl Izumi, Brian Seidel, Alf Silva
Written by Hector Martinez, Karl Izumi, Brian Seidel, Alf Silva

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Spider Long Beach, California

An atmospheric visceral mix of eerie So. Cal grit, snarling raw power rock and a lexicon vortex of vocals.

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New Cross Inn

New Cross, UK
Aug 16

Stradbally Hall

Laois, Ireland

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