This week’s essential guitar tracks: thrash wigouts that sound like Tool on acid and the best MTV video pastiche you’ll see all month
Contributions from Jackson Maxwell, Matt Parker
Hello, and welcome to a new Spotify playlist-embiggened Essential Guitar Tracks. As you may well know, every seven days (or thereabouts), we endeavor to bring you a selection of songs from across the guitar universe, all with one thing in common: our favorite instrument plays a starring role.
Our goal is to give you an overview of the biggest tracks, our editor’s picks and anything you may have missed. We’re pushing horizons and taking you out of your comfort zone – because, as guitarists, that’s something we should all be striving for in our playing.
So, here are our highlights from the past seven days – now with a Spotify playlist (scroll down for the latest additions).
Ratboys – It’s Alive
The Chicago band return for their fourth record with this killer slice of crunching, whimsical melodic rock. The hooks are matched only by the killer selection of oddball and vintage guitar gear in the video – frontperson Julia Steiner’s Dano-inspired Nepco V, in particular. It’s like a vintage guitar store window in motion and we are fully here for it. (MP)