Stream: Ramonda Hammer, ‘Destroyers’

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Ramonda Hammer (photo by Alexandria Bailey)

“Destroyers” is the title track from Ramonda Hammer‘s new EP, due Aug. 4 on New Professor. It follows last year’s debut, “Whatever That Means,” with more grungy pop chaos devised by Devin Davis, Andy Hengl, Justin Geter and Mark Edwards.

The song takes a forceful stance against the way modern life has caused an apathetic shift in the way individuals perceive and engage with the world around them, the result of technology’s affect on “the super complicated and kind of demented human brain,” says singer Devin Davis. “It has become easier and easier to affect massive serious change on others while feeling less and less about it. This is undoubtedly because of technological advancements and increasing degrees of separation, but are we doomed to feel exponentially more dissociated from and apathetic towards one another forever?” Kicking off in a weary mood, “Destroyers” grows increasingly agitated with each heated chorus, until the kettle boils over, and the instruments plow into each other, reaching chaotic peaks of distortion as Davis delivers her plea: “They with sinister dynamics made a mess in our heads, if we’re not in it together then we’re pawns till the end.”

||| Stream: “Destroyers”

||| Live: Ramonda Hammer performs June 13 at the Echoplex, along with Pom Poms. Tickets. They also play June 26 at Harvard and Stone.

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