Video: Westpark, ‘Six Flags (VHS)’

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Orange County trio Westpark — named for the elementary school where frontman Shiva Verma and drummer Enad Abunimeh originally met — make gritty, soulful garage-rock reminiscent of revivalists like the Strokes. They’ve got the hooks and the attitude to be a force … or so one would deduce from their new single “Six Flags (VHS).”

The second single from their forthcoming album “Throw Up Your Demons” — made with producer Greg Cortez at New Monkey Studios in Van Nuys — it’s a song, the band says, “about the pandemic, about a horror movie and about wanting to go to Six Flags. It’s a wild ride.”

The song indeed was inspired on a ride. The duo, who are now joined by keyboardist Will Bennett, originally played around Orange County under the name Wirebox, carrying the project with them when they attended UC Berkeley. After graduating in 2020, they became Westpark, getting to work writing and demoing new material. The VHS part of the new single’s title came from watching an old movie during quarantine; the Six Flags hook was hatched on one of the duo’s many drives on the I-5 between Berkeley and southern California.

The grainy, VHS-styled video captures the fun … now, as the song says, if everybody else would just stay at home.

||| Watch: The video for “Six Flags (VHS)”

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