Watch Spielbergs Tear Through “The New Year’s Resolution” at Oslo’s Studio Paradiso

Recorded back in March, the live video arrives in the wake of the band’s sophomore LP Vestli.

Watch Spielbergs Tear Through “The New Year’s Resolution” at Oslo’s Studio Paradiso

Recorded back in March, the live video arrives in the wake of the band’s sophomore LP Vestli.

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Johan Malvik

September 16, 2022

About a month ago, Oslo-based fuzz-punk troupe Spielbergs dropped their aggressively upbeat sophomore album Vestli, a record that opens with an energetic sendup to Japandroids’ yearning noise-pop and mostly maintains that energy throughout its remaining 11 tracks. Needless to say, it’s the stuff of unforgettable live shows—a sound that’s best consumed by having it blasted at you from an irresponsible proximity to the house speakers.

With the band currently touring Europe and the UK, the rest of us have at least gotten to see them rip through a few songs in the studio, with live videos from a late-March 2022 session at Oslo’s Studio Paradiso surfacing this month. Following “When They Come for Me” and “Get Lost,” today they’re sharing a third and final dispatch from the studio sesh with a performance of that aforementioned album opener “The New Year’s Resolution,” a rousing, noisy take on anthemic pop-punk through to its final moments wallowing in a wash of feedback.

Check it out below, and find their current set of tour dates here.