Veteran producer John Agnello has done a bang-up job of capturing the guitar-fueled essence of a slew of bands over the past four decades, from Screaming Trees, Dinosaur Jr and Buffalo Tom to Kurt Vile, Son Volt and Waxahatchee. Despite a lot of hard work over the past several years, Raleigh, N.C.’s Thirsty Curses is a lesser-known commodity than any of those acts. Not that it was of any concern to Agnello, who brings an epic, battered-and-bruised finesse to “Bombs Away,” the first single from the trio’s upcoming album, Music Is A Scam, due in February.
Thirsty Curses frontman Wilson Getchell describes “Bombs Away” as “a defiant, raucous punk tune about self-righteous political crusaders.”
We’re proud to premiere it here.
—Hobart Rowland
