the impliers drop a colorful, fuzz toned garage pop song

A brand new single from the impliers delivers an animated and vivacious approach to blending and mending elements of garage rock, pop, and desert rock, taking those fuzz tone elements and bringing them to the forefront while still having a bopping rhythm that makes you want to get up and dance. It's got so much character and energy all rolled up into this one fat song that you just can't get out of your head once you hear it.

"Country Girl" is one of the most addictive and strangest kinds of love songs that I've heard in quite a long time.

The track starts off with that bopping rhythm and fuzzy bass guitar tone, which already gets you pulled in, but then they start singing with a vocoder style effect, and that brings things outside the box and makes it even more addictive than it was before.

At this point, you're wondering what's going to end up happening next to the track because they've already created this atmosphere that feels so different and built with fewer boundaries than you may be used to.

And again, this is all happening within the first 30 seconds of the track.

They hit you with this hook right at the start, which is brilliant because not only is it an avant-garde style hook, but it's one that you already want to sing along with, even the first time you hear it at the start of the song.

Now, the track begins to open up and rock out a little bit more bringing in some fun guitars that come in along with that bass guitar driving the entire song bringing that heavy-handed and deep-grooved bop that makes you want to shake your butt and your seat.

This was incredibly fun and, for me, this is 100% garage pop. It's got a little bit of grittiness, a lot of inventive and experimental attributes, and it still has a massive catchiness to it that's coded and pop.

Bringing those elements together is not always easy, but these guys just pull it off so smoothly here.

The drumming brings a certain kind of liveliness to everything. Although they are completely in the pocket, they have a way of pushing the song's vibrancy and letting things have this natural feeling, forward-moving flow.

Plus, when the choruses come back in, the drumming starts to get more experimental as well.

That's the whole thing with this single. It's super catchy, but it's massively experimental in a good way.

They're not worried about what people are thinking, necessarily. They're not conforming to any kind of musical norms that you may be expecting to hear.

It's kind of freeing in a sense, but it's also so fun, danceable, charismatic, exciting, and brings out a perfect blend of color and edginess.

Yes, that vocoder effect is part of the actual course of the song and is not just happening in the beginning hook.

I love this too because it just, again, showcases that experimental side of how these guys do their thing and how they just put together these songs with no walls built around them.

I love the chorus and how it talks about a country girl who could be out in the city doing her thing, and how they fell in love with her as soon as she started to speak.

I love this because I feel like it actually came from someplace genuine. Just the way the lyrics are articulated felt a bit personal and even slightly vulnerable, which is also an amazing thing to bring into this brilliant mix of garage pop soundscape.

The lyrics are what bring that character or personality into the mix, and it's very heavy-handed if you pay attention to those lyrics.

Such a cool mix of these styles and approaches, authenticity and realness with an edgy pop overtone that has a drive but still keeps that quirkiness and color at the forefront.

I definitely fell for this track quickly, and with its release, we actually got to have a chat with the impliers about this song and what might be coming up next for the band.

Here's what happened.

Buzz Slayers: Let's talk about "Country Girl"! This is a great track with a little punk undertone and was fun and vivacious! Where did this song come from? 

- This song has a weird original - this never happens - but the music for the chorus actually came right as it was during a meditation - I stood up and walked into my studio and recorded it in about 10 minutes - which is the same recording on the final track. That sat around for many years on the shelf with all our other parts, and there came an opportunity to use it for this song about meeting 'the right one in the wrong place' for this album. The verses are from a separate melody from about 20 years ago. So the song is a blend of something like 4 or 5 x 30 minute sessions spread out over a 20 year period. Sometimes seeds of ideas need a gestation period, and then when the opportunity is right - it was like they were there all along waiting for the right story to tell and then they can bloom. 

Buzz Slayers: I'm hearing a few different approaches to this track! Who are some of your biggest musical influences?

- Well you nodded to the punk feel - Charles & I met through our punk scene we grew up in and started in a punk metal band, so that's always there for us in our DNA - but looking back at this song having come from different eras of life - I think some of it reflects interest in Mike Patton music from his golden era... mainly in the Tomahawk period and I also hear some influence from that 60s style Syd Barrett in the chorus. My mother also has always loved musicals, so I hear a little bit of that in the opening of each verse... a little showtune moment before it gets heavy? A lot of the approach to albums and lyrics are inspired by musicals. So - none of this was really deliberately placed in there, but looking back at the final product those are definitely there! 

Buzz Slayers: Did you record this at a home setup, or at a big studio?

-Home! We got ripped off pretty good by a nice studio in the 90s when we were teens - and my brother had been into recording all the punk bands in our scene and had bought a lot of equipment that we learned to use at the time, so in our 20s we each started home production and have been doing that for several decades. So for the most part - everything you hear was written, recorded and mixed in a home studio - then we got one of our favorite drummers, Matt Johnson to add live drums which were blended on - he played with St Vincent throughout her meteoric rise and just blew me away seeing him perform with her in 2014.

Buzz Slayers: Do you guys write songs together, or are there a few main songwriters that bring ideas back to the rest?

- We have only written one song in the same room since the 90s. We each have libraries of hundreds of songs and parts - and so sometimes it will start by one of us saying "we HAVE to use this part" and then we will kinda pitch in different parts to make it fit from our old stuff, or create a new part to make it flow - and a lot of times we will just create something from scratch in the moment - like our single Love At First sight. It's definitely helpful to have a library of music in the bank - it is important to never stop creating things - it used to be overwhelming to be sitting on a pile of unreleased things - but now that we release frequently, it is a blessing to have. Artists don't always have inspiration strike - and when it does and you have the opportunity to knock out 3 or 10 ideas, just do it. In those periods where you need something, they are on your shelf.  

Buzz Slayers: How did this all start for you as a band?

- We met at age 15 in our local punk scene through a mutual friend and started a punk metal band named MacGyver. Then Charles and I both realized we liked beautiful guitar driven music and ditched the metal to make an indie band - but we kept playing in the punk scene. We each went into some isolation periods and only made our own music in our home studios for maybe 15 years and through that period we honed our own styles and always remained the biggest fans of one anothers music. About 10 years ago we started getting back together mainly to hang out and make sketch comedy videos, and then around 2019 just decided we knew our whole lives we wanted to put music into the world to make people feel something like it does for us, and now here we are. And it's a blend of music, video, comedy, and surreal.  

Buzz Slayers: Are you performing live right now? 

- We have a live show at The Bug Theatre in Denver on August 15 - but we're not in it. It is a blend of music video, sketch video, and live comedy that ties together some of the story of our album series "The Magic". Since we feel we're not really a live band but a production right now, and just as much video as music - for live performances this feel right - it is something that I don't think I've ever seen anything like - but it is important to us to start to connect with a live audience and give people a reason to put down their phones and go into a new world and feel something.  

Buzz Slayers: Now that this is out, what's next for you as a band?

- We're finishing up the release of our album The Magic: Pt 1 which is 19 songs. Part of a trilogy of albums that will take a while to come out. Part of a 7 album series that aims to be the "entire" impliers discography. That will likely take us through our lives to finish. We will have music and video coming out for a long, long time. 

Buzz Slayers: Who's in all your headphones right now?

- Listen to "Coasting" by Fine - an artist from Copenhagen. The song Precis from Vansire is also something magical. 

Buzz Slayers: What would you tell people they can expect on this release?

- I hope people hear our songs about love and can either say 

- 1) "Wow... this is how I feel I guess I am not crazy... or I am but at least it's not just me"

- 2) "Wow... I might understand how my partner feels and I understand them better..."

- 2) "Wow... I might understand how my partner feels and I understand them better... and I am getting out of this immediately"

Buzz Slayers: Before we go, what would you like to express to fans of the music? 

- We sincerely appreciate every listen, and every view. For us - this is what we do because we enjoy it - but we mostly feel that humans should have things that make them feel and think. To have a song stuck in your head is one of the very best human feelings possible. And we aim to give people that experience. 

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