Usually by this point in mid-January, winter has beaten us down to a pulp so hard that all we can daydream about is hitting the highway and roadtripping south to warmer, sunnier pastures. If we’re leaving from our HQ here in Boston, we’ll be sure to make a pit stop in Connecticut to pick up The Problem With Kids Today, the New Haven-hatched delinquent rock and roll trio that releases new single “Speed Freak” with enough power riffage to fill our aural gas tank to the point where the “F” in the dashboard’s gas meter gauge suddenly stands for fuckyeah.
The cocksure classic rock of “Speed Freak” is the latest offering from the band’s forthcoming debut album, Born To Rock, recorded at Q Division in Cambridge, and it’s set to pull into our playlist pump station on February 9. The song arrives with a video directed by Kicker Pictures’ Connor Rog, and it looks like a whole lot of fun; watch it below.
“‘Speed Freak’ takes the listener on a wild hog night ride through a cartoon city of chrome and classic rock. [Bandmate] Silas [Lourenco-Lang] said write a song about a motorcycle, so we did,” says guitarist and vocalist Tate Brooks. “You’ll be hearing the riff all day long as you day-dream at the office like a fight clubber muttering under your breath: ‘Come on let’s go for a ride, Get on the back of my bike. Vincent Black Lightnin’ just right, You and I we ride into the night!'”
Brooks adds: “Admirers of the band’s two other released songs from Born to Rock will notice by now this band has variety and vision. With two songwriters at work in the band, the musicality and diversity is emerging and this one riffs in a slow-ride groove that’ll have your chin bobbing and mouth sneering like Gene Vincent.”
Next stop, TPWKT City. Let’s ride.