Ball of Wax 67 Songs: Spritle – “Let Me Eat Cake”

Our newish friend Bryan Brophy has brought us something completely different for Ball of Wax 67 – a blistering, blown-out stack of heavy guitars and drum machines produced under the moniker Spritle. This is perfect Friday-afternoon-at-the-end-of-a-completely-fucking-ridiculous-week music, which is appropriate – for me as I post this, anyway. There are no dynamics, no letting up, just go-go-go, Bryan barking four-syllable phrases that seem to point to the divide that can arise between what one knows needs to happen in the world and what one is doing with one’s own self. Sure, everything is falling apart and we have a responsibility, but also, can’t I also just eat some damn cake? The chorus – which we don’t get to hear until the very end of the song, one of my favorite songwriting devices – lays it out: “you’re gonna change the world, don’t try to change me / you’re gonna save the world just don’t try to save me.” It’s unclear to me whether this is Bryan working out some internal conflicts, writing in the voice of a character, or just venting a semi-stream-of-conciousness rant over some loud fucking guitars? Any way you slice it, you’ll want to play this loud and repeatedly. Note to Bryan: More please!