Imagine, if you will, the horror of having to choose between creeping people out and freaking people out. Why, being faced with such a choice would rob Marilyn Manson, FOX News, and the pizza rat of their peculiar potency.
It’s a problem that Garett van der Spek knows all too well. The LA-via-South Africa singer dropped his self-titled debut last Friday on Anti-, and today we’re pleased to be premiering the video for single “Creep Out // Freak Out.” Unless heavy Nuggets vibes make you think of sinister old garages, it’s not a terribly creepy track, but the song’s rave-up chorus, which twists up into van der Spek’s heady falsetto, feels like it’s ready to freak out small-space venues from coast to coast.
While van der Spek’s sound is certainly influenced by the garage-rock scene of his new home, there’s a craftsmanship to “Creep Out // Freak Out”’s composition that belies the song’s rough-housing production. “I’d taken on this completely new life, in a country which in some ways was familiar, but in others was completely foreign,” van der Spek says of Prism Tats’ genesis in a statement. “So these songs are all about that experience of evolving.”
You can check out the “Creep Out // Freak Out” video below, as well as Prism Tats’ cover and track list.
Prism Tats track list
“Pacifist Masochist”
“Creep Out // Freak Out”
“Never Been Shy”
“Death or Fame”
“Make the Most of the Weekend”
“Weird Guilt”
“Midnight Mountain”
“Excess”
“Haunt Me”
“Know it All”
Prism Tats is out now on Anti-.
