Ded Rabbit - 'Gotta Get Outta This Place'
Edinburgh’s Ded Rabbit unleash rollicking, alternative rock with a slice of optimism on new single, ‘Gotta Get Outta This Place’.
The saying goes that familiarity breeds contempt. While it’s obvious that this wasn’t coined with music in mind, there’s little denying that it works within this context, after all, it’s hard to get excited about something if you’ve heard it all before. Or is it? Nostalgia might be one argument against the above, but genre would be a much safer option, with people gravitating towards a handful and often rarely stepping outside of that.
With this in mind, it’s clear that by and large, it’s all subjective, and as such, there are people out there that are likely to turn their nose up at the ‘Gotta Get Outta This Place’, the latest single from Edinburgh’s Ded Rabbit.
Those people would be wrong.
Exploding out of the starting gates with an instantly optimistic triumvirate of guitar, bass and drums, Ded Rabbit harbour a sound that’s reminiscent of the joyously calamitous likes of The View or The Cribs. It’s a style of indie that’s always been quietly aspirational and here suits the narrative of shit nights out and dead-end jobs perfectly.
It’s an aesthetic however, which might well earn the band some criticism, yet they succeed in breathing fresh air into the tired lungs of a genre which to many was in danger of stagnating. As a result, ‘Gotta Get Outta This Place’ feels far from dated, and instead provides listeners with a glorious slice of effervescent optimism that couldn’t have arrived at a better time.
Words of Dave Beech