The Spider Accomplice Learn To "Crawl"

There are so many ways for bands to release music, and to strategize how they do that, it can be hard to know what the right path is. I'm old-fashioned in the sense that I still prefer albums above all else, but I have started to come around on EPs. Bands that release only singles are still a bit harder for me to wrap my head around, but that's for a specific reason I'm about to use as a jumping off point.

The Spider Accomplice started 2020 with a new mission statement, and a new strategy to go along with it. They have already given us "Enough", and now kick off the second half of the year with this latest song. The reason I find singles harder to get into is because many of the bands I've encountered who use this tactic still take enormous amounts of time off between songs. The Spider Accomplice is trying to make sure they stay a constant presence in our minds and hearts, and that's what makes them special.

With this song, the band sheds expectations yet again by dipping into the rock opera ethos of the early 2000s. The way the drums punch through the mix, and the strings swell in the background is bigger than just a simple little rock song. This is the sort of song that is as much at home being sung on a theater stage as in a club pit. That's another way of saying it sounds and feels like art, and not just music. The Spider Accomplice has been expanding their reach with each step they take, and with this song their wings span from horizon to horizon.

As the imagery points out, this is a song I hear as being about personal growth and development, gaining an understanding of yourself great enough that you must shed your skin to become the person you really are. It's an uplifting message for those of us who have questions along those lines, and who often feel constrained by the skin society wraps us in. Some of us wait for it to slough and dissolve in the truth of the sun, while some of us take ink and draw our truths upon ourselves as we wait. Either way, you can't stop being who you are, and sometimes we need to be reminded to crawl out of our shells and embrace that.

VK and Arno have once again delivered a song that shows The Spider Accomplice spinning webs that refract a rainbow as we look upon them from different perspectives. "Crawl" is the band mixing the drama of "End My Life" with their best interpretation of stadium rock. They have never sounded bigger, and maybe the song just hit me on the right day, but they haven't sounded better either. "Crawl" more than stands strong all by itself.

"Crawl" will be available everywhere July 3rd. Make sure you give it a listen.