Brooklyn’s premier classic [alternative] [synth] rock band, Shapes on Tape, has released their new song, “Goodness Comes in Time.” It’s 1 part Smashing Pumpkins, 1 part Flaming Lips, 1 part Ed Sheeran, or however you spell that guy’s name.
Jason Matuskiewicz, author of this majestic piece of tunage, had the following to say:
“‘Goodness Comes in Time’ is a big, beautiful, sentimental song about North America’s former premier destination classic, speed, power and thrash metal event, Ragnokkr Metal Apocalypse” (R.I.P.), which was founded and run by my brother and my cousin annually in the lovely city of Chicago. I worked at the festival, in the sense that I sat at the merch table drinking free beer and attempting to peddle the wares. I was once even promoted to between band hype man (an honor not soon replicated in my life). Unfortunately, the fest’s definition of a successful year was approaching breaking even and it was simply not sustainable. But hopefully some of its spirit and memory can live on in our supremely un-metal celebration of the same.”
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aA2zTl8MAdexO2tvU5YYh?si=mg–uqg2Q2qP_0FTFyJSKQ
Apple:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/goodness-comes-in-time-single/1450469712
BIO:
Shapes on Tape is a Brooklyn-based Brew-Wave/Ultrapop group whose infectious hook-laden three-minute bangers represent a new era where loud guitars and synthesizers can coexist and even party together. A band that once made L Magazine implore U2 to “move over and let Shapes on Tape seize the thrown(sic),” Shapes on Tape asks the question, “What if Walter Mondale had won?”
Genre-hopping producer/multi-instrumentalist/90s groovebox enthusiast Adam Kruckenberg, formerly of Midwest glam legend Vibralux, and guitarist/poet Jason Matuskiewicz, a veteran of beloved Lexington, KY band Candidate, began collaborating in 2014, but they didn’t complete their sound, best described as a sonic assault of feels, until they expanded S on T to include drum savant and overall swell guy Justin Heaverin of Noisebody and The Silver Tongues.
Matuskiewicz’s lyrics and straightforward style walk the line between high and low concept with an abrupt 3-chord frankness that never takes itself seriously, while Kruckenberg’s powerful vocals and synthetic reimaginings take the songs to epic proportions. Combined with Heaverin’s unstoppable groove, you could be forgiven for wondering when The Boss had time to do a secret collaboration with Erasure. With the help of Grammy-nominated producer and Hedwig alum Justin Craig, SoT’s forthcoming album Legends in The Process is sure to be a supersonic, beer-fueled dreamscape littered with the carcasses of _-waves and _-cores.
Sounds like: The imaginary “greatest band that ever existed” that haunted your dreams when you were 8 years old.
