Kevin Bronson on August 30th, 2011

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“Bull in the Wild,” the three-minute banger off Eastern Conference Champions’ scintillating new album “Speak-Ahh,” sprints along on an ascending bass line while Josh Ostrander spits out lyrics like a drunken beat poet. It’s exhilarating, moreso if you catch some of the imagery in Ostrander’s seemingly stream-of-consciousness wordplay. “I’m in the corner / watching the busy, busy of your eyes” sounds almost furtive, the observation of somebody who finally comes out of that corner to proclaim, “All the kings and the queens and princes were right / I’m a bull in the wild on a midsummer’s night.” James Weir’s one-take video for the song (plenty of familiar faces in there) captures its toughness. Fists, pump.

||| Download: A remix of “Bull in Wild” at mxdwn.com, where the video premiered.

||| Live: Eastern Conference Champions play Sept. 16 at the Satellite and Sept. 17 at the Satellite.