MSPAINT Share New Single “Acid”

Hattiesburg, Mississippi’s loudest export, MSPAINT, have shared their new single, Acid, via Convulse Records. The four-piece have been turning heads recently with their truly singular sound, blending hardcore aggression, post punk melodicism and hip hop cadences into a sonic amalgam that’s hard to categorize, but easy to enjoy. Co-produced by Ian Shelton (Militarie Gun) and engineer Taylor Young (God’s Hate / Drain / Full of Hell), Acid is a jolt of kinetic synth-punk and a highly promising taste of what’s to come from MSPAINT. The track opens with a dreamy keyboards that quickly give way to pounding drums and unrelentingly distorted bass, while the unique delivery of vocalist Deedee grabs the listener by the head and doesn’t let go. 

“‘Acid’ is about being pushed to the edge and having to reevaluate your existence in order to survive. It’s the first song we wrote after releasing the demo in March of 2020. It was definitely a track that we felt created the template for the rest of the songs that came after. At the same time it was a song that was constantly evolving or changing all the way up until we actually recorded it. It was one of those things where when we wrote a new song and it felt like we found a different element to our sound, we would go back to ‘Acid’ and make little changes based on whatever we were currently figuring out at the time. Tonally we wanted to ride the line between intensity and still trying to make it feel optimistic. The drums and bass are constantly moving, like they’re trying to escape the song structure. Large spacey synths help reign it all in and gave Deedee a lot of room to play with cadence and vocal rhythms.” (Bassist Randy Riley)