With a melody that echoes the melancholic weight of Good Charlotte’s The Chronicles of Life and Death, augmented with My Chemical Romance-esque histrionic energy and red-hot guitar work, Dancing in the Fallout by Primordial Alien is the ultimate anthem for anyone feeling the heat of the apocalypse as it approaches.
Answers to ennui feel impossible, so, instead, the single grants permission to loosen your grip on the anxiety attached to our Anthropocene and escape back into emo pop punk as it should be: theatrical and cathartic, with sticky-sweet hooks to pour your heart out to. The riffs carry 00s alternative rock melodrama like a life raft.
Primordial Alien is the alternative rock and pop punk project of Schuylar Holland, professionally known as Infinite, a US Army veteran based in Oklahoma. Since beginning the project in December 2023, Holland has shifted from heavier industrial metal origins into more melodic, narrative-rich releases.
For fans of My Chemical Romance and Green Day, with Panic! at the Disco’s theatrical streak flickering at the edges, Dancing in the Fallout is a cinematic inferno and proof of how seminal Primordial Alien has become to the remit of alt-rock.
Dancing in the Fallout is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
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