Chris Combs - “Can’t Stop”
Photo by Jaden Da Rosa
Chris Combs from Tulsa, USA, has just released the woozy psychedelic rock track, “Can’t Stop.”
“Can’t Stop” is a swaggering track that hums with astral intent as if it’s being beamed from a parallel universe. Shuffling, creeping, and low-lit, it has the vibe of a 1970s psych record colliding with and anthemic, clenched-fist banger. With that fist, Chris Combs certainly decides to vividly punch the sky.
From start to finish you are swept away immersively riding on top of a bubbly bassline and hypnotic, loose but purposeful drum beat. It is the type of circular groove that feels as if it is endlessly striding towards a desert horizon. Never quitting not even for water.
Snaking across the trance-like rhythm are elegant, sweeping string arrangements and Fripp-styled textural guitar work. Helping hold the patch work together are touches of pedal effects, reverb, echo. Musically, the track is nothing short of a mystical fever dream.
Combs serves up a hazy vocal performance across “Can’t Stop” that sounds like a trippy cross between Beck and Damon Albarn. It is a delivery that sounds as mirage-like as the guitar layers. Conversational in tone, it breezily drifts over the crunchy percussion. Heightening the mantra vibes is the end section where Combs breaks into a chant, helping to keep our feet on the ground as the musical layers drift skyward.
Dreamlike and other worldly, “Can’t Stop” feels like the sound of an artist who has been round the block a few times and has a bag full of stories only music can tell. “Can’t Stop” is out now via Horton Records.