Dream Weapon
There’s something poetic about naming a debut single “Dream Weapon” in a world where both dreams and weapons have become so thoroughly commodified. But King In Yellow, the Kingston-based band taking cues from the dissonant ferocity of Sonic Youth and the deadpan romanticism of The Smiths, are not here to play nice. They’re here to make noise, and more importantly, to capture what it feels like to vanish inside it. “Dream Weapon” explores alienation, but not the usual performative kind. King In Yellow seem to be tapping into a very specific kind of fatigue: the exhaustion that comes not from being alone, but from being endlessly connected in a world that never shuts up. This isn’t 90s nostalgia, it’s a reactivation of its spirit. Scruffy, erratic, communal.