One of many successes on Caleb L’Etoile‘s new album American Death, “AW HELL” channels an impassioned rock fervency — existing within a “religious trauma/doomsayer genre as informed by current events,” per the Virginia-based artist.

Panting percussion and twangy guitars build with enjoyable momentum, as L’Etoile’s vocals escalate with ferociously artful appeal. “I mean, look at this shit, and he just shook his head,” continues a sense of reckoning, conversing with God and wondering WTF — aesthetically reminding fondly of vintage Modest Mouse in its ferocious rock appeal. “You can pray all you want, but you got what you wanted,” his vocals ring out, feeling apocalyptic and foreboding in its delivery as the memorable title-touting refrain arrives into an affirming call: “The world’s on fire, and I ain’t gonna put it out.”

Similar high-quality songwriting resonates throughout the rest of American Death, which L’Etoile describes as ” an anti-fascist album written during, and heavily inspired by, a specific time in history and political events,” — further describing the release as “about evil and greed, human rights, humanity, and home.”

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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.

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