Year In ReView: Our favorite Boston-ish songs of 2017

Big Time Kill, “I Don’t Care Anymore”

It seems there’s a bit of an industrial renaissance going on, and Boston duo Big Time Kill are adding some local flavor to the charge with their own unique strain of big-beat noise. In July they returned with an absolute mind-ripper of a dance floor jam in “I Don’t Care Anymore,” aligning with pulsating disco rather than metal-ish guitarwork, peeling back the sonic assault of their previous material ever so slightly in favor of a bit of funk. The glossy, massive-sounding electronic-rock track is the first selection off Big Time Kill’s upcoming debut full-length, and it slays. “The album feels like an evolutionary moment for the band where we embrace more of our electronic side, and by doing that things get a bit more eclectic and wild,” Big Time Kill mastermind Adam Schneider told Vanyaland. “I Don’t Care Anymore” is described by Schneider as “a song about living in the age of communication and social media where you’re constantly bombarded with information to the point of numbness, and it’s kind of like our demented industrial take on Mark Ronson’s funky feel good summer vibes. I love the ’80s Wax Trax!-era bands like Revolting Cocks and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult where they take these uplifting dance floor beats and sing about terrible things over it, and this song gives a nod to that style.”