PARTYBABY - Everything’s All Right

Californians PARTYBABY have everything within their locker to bark out FIDLAR-style YOLO chants, throwing a great big escapist party. They’re built for that stuff. Instead, with their remarkable first move ‘Everything’s All Right’, they get sinister.

“I feel good when you feel bad / I won’t be happy until you’re dead / If you don’t feel like dying, I can wait a long, long, long time,” barks a deathly chorus, splintering out with distorted guitar parts its only backing. Nobody knows who PARTYBABY are at this stage, but they’re clearly a band you wouldn’t want to cross.

Across this three-minute juggernaut, they travel between fluttery piano lines, light acoustics, abrasive pop-punk and unadulterated noise. Within the melee, there’s an answer in there somewhere. Masters of several crafts at once, there’s so much to feast on in the space of one introductory song, you could live off this for years. PARTYBABY are in a completely different league - that much is already clear.