Post-punk slash dance-punk is having a moment, and I’m loving it. I was tempted to start dropping the names of present day bands, but that’s silly. I’ll just post them as well. So, what do I say about Gustaf?

Well, now I’m stuck. Fuck! What do I say?

I’ve been thinking about this for two days now. At some point I lost the thread of what I am doing over here, just four posts in. Am I supposed to write about the artist? Do I write about myself? Do I write about the song (somehow, when the song has an internal logic I do not understand, like this one)? Do I write something else entirely and wait for inspiration to strike? Then I wouldn’t get anything done!

What would the staires.org style guide suggest? Hello, I like this song. Gustaf is a band from New York, part of a greater resurgence of art punk and dance punk, a thing that I love and am enjoying greatly. I was listening to music the other day and this song came on, and I thought, “yes, this is the Gustaf song I will post, it is weird and muscular and danceable and also sort of vaguely uncomfortable, but in a sexy way, and wait—-is this song from the perspective of the earth? Am I being told to touch grass? Whatever, who cares, just post this shit!”

Okay, id, okay.