Over the past few years, it's become common practice for many metalcore bands to record and release "ironic" covers of mainstream hits. Songs from "Bad Romance" to "Since U Been Gone" have been slathered with repetitive, discordant riffing, squealing pinch harmonics, and guttural vocals. I woke up this morning to find a link that my friend had posted me to SoCal metalcore group Confide's cover of The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights." Singers Ross Kenyon and Joel Piper deliver a one-two punch of frenzied shrieks and glossy, ready-for-top-40 cleans. For some reason, I find the transfiguration of this song and the video that accompanies it particularly lol-inducing. Maybe it's the band members' testing of the resiliency of their skinny jeans through intense crabcore squatting à la Attack Attack! Maybe it's their synchronized bouncing to the brvtal breakdowns that grace the song. Maybe it's the sullen close-ups of those mournful faces bounded by perfectly straightened hair. I don't know. Decide for yourself.
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