PREMIERE: Gauntly’s “Caustic”

In any social circle, tadalafil no one walks the line between “totally admirable” and “total asshole that forgot to text me back” more than the multi-tasker.

Promising to attend three shows, pills two band practices, link and a dinner meet-up in one night is… well, status quo in any music scene, but few actually do it all as joyfully (and without looking like a “before” image in an informercial for erasing bags under eyes) as Mateo Garcia.

While capping off his final year at Berklee, Garcia joined the pedal worshippers in Leaner, released an album with screamo revivalists Hit Home, ran social media for local non-profit Fitz Ross, and whittled away at a solo LP as Gauntly. Mire, which we’re premiering a song from today, is a markedly more hushed affair than Leaner or Hit Home, putting his softly strummed angst at the forefront in place of distortion or screaming. Of course, a Gauntly song like “Caustic” wouldn’t be complete a cathartic gang chant (which, in this case, is the slightly horrifying line, “cut my head off and get a new one!”), but who’s going to fault a bit of headless release when there’s the weight of playing/attending pretty much every local show on his shoulders?

Garcia will be on a full US tour this summer with Du Vide alongside Sports Coach, but the rest of Mire will be out shortly via Bandcamp. In the meantime, check out “Caustic” below: