Asbury Park, New Jersey-based alt-pop trio Grasser don’t have a specific person assigned as the songwriter. Rather, the trio bounce ideas off each other and create something more collaborative. With a unique brand of guitar-pop, the band walk the line between serious and satirical, with a wry, tongue-in-cheek humor.
Today, the band are debuting their latest single “Vapid/Dense.” With its hilarious hook of “I eat a lot of ass so I talk a lot of shit,” the song is an emotional rager that still manages to make you giggle uncontrollably.
“‘Vapid/Dense’ was the first song we wrote after completing our last album,” explain the band about the new single. “We’re huge fans of beat switches in hip-hop and R&B, so we wanted to explore that same juxtaposition with a rock feel. It’s almost like three short, one-minute vignettes forced to share a row on a plane.
“The first half was originally molded to sound like an early aughts Dr. Dre-type instrumental, before the second half launches into a Queens of the Stone Age-esque groove with Lil Uzi Vert inspired auto-tune vocals.
“Lyrically, it fills the listeners in on where we’ve been at mentally (and musically) since our last release. Mundane tasks get in the way, sure, but we’re still hustling like never before. Equal parts depressing and perverse. First melancholic and introspective, then anthemic and explosive. A cluster-fuck of our bullshit sprawled across a three-minute bop—with a hook about tossing the salad that you’ll thinking about long after the song ends.”
Check out the track below.
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