Social Cinema are back with their latest single “It’s Only Weed”. The song is pulled from their just released full-length debut Don’t Get Lost, out via Midtopia. “It’s Only Weed”, explains the band’s Griffin Bush, “is about trying not to buy drugs when you go downtown.”
Social Cinema didn’t want to rush their debut album. Its members knew it would reveal itself in time. “It’s kind of like all of our albums already exist,” drummer Logan Bush says. “They’re out there, and we just have to go find them.”
In early 2024, the band sensed the pieces of their debut were coming together, and the studio sessions they booked that spring were meant to explore a pile of demos that had been collected in a folder shared among members, titled “album mode.” But it took releasing 22 songs in their first three years to reach that point — in the form of two EP’s and a compilation that grouped 10 somewhat disconnected tracks into one release, much like a hip-hop mixtape would.
Frontman Griffin Bush says many early Social Cinema songs existed primarily as material to fill setlists at their shows, which, for their part, have been the band’s undeniable strength from the start. Social Cinema are a force on stage, deploying tightly wound dance rhythms in the guise of rock songs while Griffin evangelizes at center stage, arms flailing and spouting vocally like a cross between King Krule and Joey Ramone. The band’s shows have won fans over with the visceral, nothing-left-on-the-table presentation of a group that has laboriously studied the makings of a great rock show.
Don’t Get Lost is unmistakably a pop album, but of a highly calculated strain, meant to hook you in at the surface level and designed to reward you with repeated listens. Its construction is a product of Griffin’s exacting touch, not unlike those of obsessive power-pop scientists Ric Ocasek and Rivers Cuomo. You’ll appreciate how effective these songs are at grabbing and keeping your attention.
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