Setting the frequency with a drum beat, crowd noise and and elegant guitar before there track explodes into anthemic rock energy, Passive Aggressive open their recent single Call Me Crazy with the lyrics, “Call Me Crazy, my mind is hazy…”
Speaking on the record, the rising outfit from Brooklyn says in high concept terms, “Call Me Crazy is a track written with intent to stray away from the majority approach in the processes of over-saturating significance within a song, while simultaneously aiming to create a representation of art which can create open interpretation toward all audiences subject to this musical composition, in turn granting listeners the power to forge their own personal meaning within the song as they listen.”
With that said, we love the cerebral themes of the song which include an understanding of the psyche and human condition.
The band features Ryan Palmer on rhythm guitar, Greg Stewart on bass guitar, Jacob Schirripa on lead guitar, Nick Grasso on drums and Boris Konyukhov playing saxophone.
When discussing their influences, the band cites The Beatles, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, The Garden, Outkast, Kanye West, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters and The Strokes, but it is clear that the band is creating a universe of their own with their sonic landscape.
Diving further into the creative process of the track, the band elaborates, “The passive lightheartedness and happy-go-lucky lyricism of Stewart, coexisting with the aggressive fast paced and continual moving melody of the track in turn inspired the birth of Call Me Crazy, with an overall aim at creating a work of art which was crafted with no particular meaning while simultaneously giving listeners the power to forge their own personal representations of what the song means to them within each listen.”
The band expands, saying, “Call Me Crazy in turn, is a song designed to have its meaning be entirely meaningless in the perspective of its songwriters and yet created to develop specific, intimate, and personal meaning through individual representation of each listener.”
We love the open to interpretation approach that the band has with their channelling of source energy into art. Call Me Crazy also comes with an exhilarating cover of Britney Spears’ Toxic, which is incredible with the wild nature of the guitars and saxophone which recreate the iconic Indian strings.
We have added both tracks to our New Music Spotlight playlist, and have been immersing ourselves in the wider discography of Passive Aggressive.