There’s a line in Misery Winter that pretty much explains the whole damn song: “I turn around and walk it again.” And rather than attempting to break that cycle, Noah James Mass wraps it in fuzz and blues-infused energy.
Noah James Mass’ Misery Winter is what you might get if The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, and Queens of the Stone Age left the door open in a rehearsal room and let one musician take over from there. It’s for those who like their alternative rock track with introspection and filmic production.
There’s stubbornness embedded in the guitars right from the start, the kind of rough, fuzzy sound that makes you want to turn the volume up to hear what follows next. But despite its raggedness, its bluesy looseness keeps the fuzz from becoming too much.
He writes without any intention of keeping it clean or pretty. You’d get no redemption nor a clean ending. Sometimes you just want to hear that voice again. Sometimes you’ve got to leave. Sometimes taking two more of that pill makes more sense than sitting with the pain. Maybe that’s the Misery Winter he’s talking about.
Mass deserves some serious credit for how he wrote and produced this song because there’s confidence in letting the track get dirty, heavy, and a little beat-up. Nothing’s showy, just an artist trusting his own instincts more than anything. And by the end, you’ll realize that kind of trust goes a long way, especially when the result sounds this real and alive.
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