Porch Light – “Under”

Porch Light, the young Minneapolis rock band, probably have a bone to pick with Noah Kahan. Type their band name into any DSP and you're greeted with a song from Kahan's recent blockbuster The Great Divide, a problem they weren't facing six months ago. The good news is Porch Light have the juice, so they may outlast this Kahan obstacle the same way Wednesday outlasted Netflix's Wednesday in the seach bar."Under," the new single out today, presents Porch Light as that rare specimen: the ferocious beast with commercial appeal. The song begins with searing feedback and features guttural screams from lead singer Jackie Uhas, but there's also Southern rock swagger aplenty in this band's hard rock attack, and Uhas can just as easily toggle between harsh aggression to sweet melodies.Pretty good backstory on this one too:Full transparency, we just really wanted to make a face-melting song I could scream on. The guys came to my parents’ house for a writing session and began jamming. "Under" was born, with the only parts I had written at the time being the verses. It took some marinating, but a few months later at practice, I just started yelling “WAKE ME UP” over the chorus. When we went to record the album, I made it a point that these vocals would be the last thing I recorded over our 10-day session. I’m not trained to yell without damaging my voice, and I didn't want to hold back; I also thought it would be fitting if I was drunk. Our last night, Timberwolves game on, a few beers and a Jameson shot deep, I stumbled to the bathroom and wrote the bridge sitting on the toilet. 5 minutes later I recorded vocals, our producer Caleb having not heard my parts yet. Safe to say, nobody knew what to expect.Hear "Under" and Porch Light's Paramore-esque prior single "Arctic" below."Under" and "Arctic" are out now on Mom+Pop.