Atlanta alt-rocker Beau Andersons new track “Fix It” is a sludge-heavy anthem that sits somewhere between Black Sabbath’s doom and Queens of the Stone Age’s desert swagger but with a pinch of Royal Blood in there. The riffs are mean and fuzzed through a Jack White–style Plasma Coil pedal, while Anderson sneers lines like “Give me something meaningful / Something to die for” with the conviction of a frontman pushing back against the grind. He lovingly adorns his guitar playing style as “boneheaded caveman”. Love the groove, it’s dancey and syncopated and I hear a bit of Brendan Benson in the vocal performance and I mean that positively because I’m a big fan of him.
Anderson’s former Seven Year Witch bandmate Aaron Langford stars as a manic pitchman hawking “Fix It,” a green-goo cure-all that’s anything but. Stuck in a loop of soul-crushing factory work, Anderson finally snaps—unleashing over-the-top violence straight out of a cartoon slasher as he hunts down the spokesman in the woods, Predator-style, bottles of “Fix It” in hand. It’s absurd, nightmarish, and oddly cathartic.
“Fix It” is the lead single off Anderson’s debut EP Soundtrack of Letting Go (out Oct. 24), a dark, gritty collection wrestling with time, heartache, and post-college disillusionment. Fans of Royal Blood, All Them Witches, and Motörhead will find plenty to sink their teeth into. I bet this hits hard af live.
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