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\"Golomb,<\/a>There is simply no local bias anymore. It\u2019s truly exhilarating to see exhilarating music in your region, made blocks from your house, knowing there\u2019s an artistic enthusiasm emanating from a cult of forward-thinking youth gathering in your community. We will need that in the janky dystopia we are now descending. Being able to hunker down in a silo and start to think about the next phase of resistance, and how that looks culturally\u2013that should be a focus.<\/p>\n

I apologize to Golomb to project any kind of hope I have in the future onto them (an indoctrinating leftist agenda), but jeez, the art of these three people\u2013Xenia Holmes Shuman on bass, Mickey Shuman on guitar, and Hawken Holmes on drums (plus more people, as this album becomes the Basement Tapes<\/i> in the final third)\u2014feels like an intuitive resistance that we have to nurture, support, and help expand (plus cheer live). How do I, as a Gen X who survived without brain rot, communicate to the young that the old ways were the best and the only way? To be loud? To make a difference? Or, in contrast, how does one listen to new ideas and how they want to interpret our mistakes?<\/p>\n

Golomb certainly comes from that chaotic world. To tap into their upbringing\u2013formidable parents making formidable art past the expiration date of \u201cyouthful\u201d art\u2013would be unfair. These are kids born with the Great American Songbook read to them every night, but they also found a way to rebel against that book while embracing it. These are kids who come from High Street bohemia, who were in a Stones cover band, and who played a pre-drinking game of Making the Band<\/i>. How to be a band was second nature.<\/p>\n

To be insular and find their craft in their community and then release it upon the world shows a band so confident in their dynamism that they put a reggae song (\u201cOther Side of the Earth\u201d) right in the center. That\u2019s how nearly every moment of The Beat Goes On<\/i>, the trio\u2019s debut full-length, inherently feels: like an achievement of confidence. Golomb already released a series of \u201csingles\u201d that celebrated living in Columbus and the gauntlet the world of local stages might portend. Here, in every note, they are already ready to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s okay, most of my songs are simple ones. Pick a chord and it plays on,\u201d sings Shuman and Holmes. You can\u2019t question the dynamics. Their playing is some kind of rickety machine that always works. In those simple songs, there\u2019s space for Shuman to shred, for brother and sister, Xenia and Hawken, to lock in, a battery that goes beyond DNA. Familial synthesis and love aside, seeing these songs live is living, at least for now. Within these simple structures, they can swing, drone, skronk, shoegaze, and rip most of all.<\/p>\n

\u201cStaring,\u201d a song the power-trio has pinpointed as one more theirs than most, hits that nerve. I\u2019m unsure what it must have been like to ingest that first Dinosaur Jr. record (probably fulfilling and goosebump-inducing), but this too has that germ-like impact on first contact. Meanwhile, \u201cPlay Music\u201d and \u201cThe Sad Song\u201d are titles obvious beyond irony. That\u2019s the primitive attraction to them as well.<\/p>\n

They have songs above board, especially for any group mining the past. But they\u2019re also a blank sheet, a tabula rasa that comes from the mid-80s Our Band Could Be Your Life<\/i> revolt: the Meat Puppets (Shuman shreds like a Kirkwood), H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, Sonic Youth (when they were cool). Still, the trio\u2019s simultaneous resistance to anything simulating cool is, well, cool. A universal truth.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m unsure of what \u201ccool\u201d is in 2025 (it\u2019s a slippery slope), but again, that song, \u201cPlay Music,\u201d flits in very, very, close to clich\u00e9. Still, other guitars intercept, a horn invades, Shuman mutilates his strings for extra drama, and it transcends whatever \u201ccool\u201d could be. Really, just vibes. Now, that\u2019s all that really matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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