By While he doesn’t write a ton for MGRM these days, Jake Mazon’s influences and interests are well documented within the webpages of this very site. The things he’s written about for us over the year echo pretty clearly throughout the sound of Mac Luster, a project that he retired in January of 2018 but has been revived with gusto now eight years later on what is ostensibly their debut single, “Waiting Game.”
Mazon, with producer/bassist Jackson Wargo, captures the raw, anthemic scuzz of The Replacement’s HOOTENANNY and coats it in a grimy new wave’y muck, with hooks that recall The Cult and Killing Joke and other harder Big Music sounds from the mid-to-late ’80s. It’s basement rock ‘n roll reaching for the rafters. The rhythm section feels heavy—not sonically, but spiritually—allowing the big, glitzy choruses and breakdowns to shine brighter and hit harder.
“I wrote ‘Waiting Game’ at the end of 2016 on a guitar I bought for 50 bucks at a garage sale,” Mazon says. “It’s about turning inward after the end of a relationship. The simultaneous realizations that not only do you not have your shit together but that you are also not capable of getting your shit together.”
You can hear “Waiting Game” below:
Mac Luster will be playing Merry-Go-Round’s upcoming showcase at Permanent Records Roadhouse on February 13th! You can grab tickets to that here!
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