Yes - almost a little Stray Cats vibe. It's swinging and has the ethos that only Fresh Spotless Youth can pull off.

Swing punk is now totally a thing, now that I’ve listened to this song!

There are definitely some aggressive undertones in this song. I was anticipating some harder guitars and more intense vocals around the 1:11 mark. Nice groove on this one, btw.

I don't care what kind of music this is. It's fun and bouncy and intriguing and clever and kind of in your face. Love it

A little bit Iggy pop but also a little bit lou reed, this song got me grooving, great work!

I really, really like the chord progression on "Show me an angel and I'll paint you one". The way it feels unresolved but inviting.

Lyrics that came to me during a relisten:

hold a rock call a friend don't let worry be the end varnished thoughts and burning minds see any thread can paralyze just try just try

artistry is collaboration the canvas made of warp and weft ancestors to next generations as long as you're here there's time there's time

and stitches left

Great job on these lyrics--and I enjoy your vocal treatment throughout this! Terrific! ❤️

I love this! In my late teens I used to sort my music in three piles: punk in a broader sense (biggest pile), punk in a narrower sense (slightly smaller pile) and non-punk (tiny pile). So this would have joined the big pile, because it's not clearly not punk. Maybe it's because it does remind me of Iggy Pop, and I liked Iggy Pop in a not non-punk-way. But maybe now I like him in a non-punk way, and it doesn't really matter anyway. Sooo. The music is really catchy and energetic and improved my mood immediately. And I like the idea of someone grabbing an angel by the scruff of the neck and triumphantly dragging them to M. Courbet. The angel would probably get quite annoyed.

Definitiely a punk-ier vibe and energy, in some of the vocals too. But unmistakeably your style in delivery and the lyrics, and always so damned catchy and sort of perfectly rounded, nothing unnecessary. Sounds great when you doubletrack your voice on "Show me an angel..", you should do that more often! (not should, but it's just so effective and powerful I think).

OMG i saw Richard Hell and the Voidoids in 77. get what you mean particularly about passeneger - you say punk you have it - although i never thought any of them were punk! Firstly these lyrics are far too good and there are too many for all those 70s bands. Lastly i like your voice better! so there! I like this whatever

That's some lyrics and that's some song and yes, it has a somewhat 70's punkish vibe but I think it feels current too and the words cut across time boundaries imo...really good!

This is great.. is giving Talking Heads vibes. I could listen all day.

You had me at Richard Hell and the Voidoids and Iggy Pop. Show me an angel and I'll paint you one.... that's inspired. Wish I had wrote that line!

the opening made me think of ricky gardiner's riff upon which iggy pop placed his passenger, then when i read your liner notes i saw your appropriation of that riff that intentional. on the lyical end of it, i believe that "show me an angel and ill paint you one" could well have been Caravaggio's battle cry.