Melbourne-based alternative rock outfit Reetoxa captures the dizzying heat of a serendipitous encounter on their highly energetic new single, “The Lisa Song.” Frontman, composer, and lyric writer Jason McKee formally launched the project assembling a lineup featuring Kit Riley, Peter Marin, James Ryan, Jessica McPherson-Riley, and Terry Hart shortly after a life-altering night at the Forum Theatre.
During a Spiderbait concert, a radiant stranger stepped in front of his lens, beautifully haloed by stage lights, immediately prompting him to quit his university studies and passionately chase down his musical obsession.
The resulting track sounds exactly like that precise second of a neurological short-circuit. Propelled by thick, continuous chords and a relentlessly fast-paced rhythm, the melody hurtles forward to mirror a racing pulse. The lyrics expertly dissect the bittersweet tension of sudden, overwhelming infatuation violently colliding with introverted panic. You feel McKee’s hypnotic attraction, followed swiftly by his frantic urge to physically run away from the connection.
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This euphoric, coming-of-age soundscape swells into an anthemic wall of sound during the soaring chorus, eventually peaking in a lively crescendo before gently fading out. How often do we bolt out of sheer panic from the exact strangers meant to alter our destinies?
