Reckling is the musical outfit comprised of chief songwriter Kelsey Reckling and a backing band boasting FIDLAR’s Max Kuehn and Together Pangea’s Erik Jimenez, as well as Paramore’s touring drummer Joey Mullen. The LA-based punk quartet recently revealed plans to follow-up to their 2018 self-titled EP with another EP titled Human Nature, and the latest track from this collection demonstrates a tight post-punk starting point from which the song unwinds into squealing guitar bridges, setting it apart from much of the garage rock scene half the band grew out of.
Yet the five-minute burner shares the reckless energy of that scene, sounding almost improvised at times. “Most of my songs are written retrospectively, often reflecting back on a specific time or feeling,” Reckling notes. “But ‘Verbalize’ was written in real time during the actual moment, in the middle of all the feelings—and was written as a way of sorting through things. It’s kind of like vomiting...when you have that bad feeling in your stomach but you’re not at the point of having to throw up yet, but you know that when you do throw up, you’re gonna feel so much better. Sometimes, you have to exorcize feelings from your body by way of song.”
Hear the track below, and anticipate the EP out August 12.
