"Try" — Asparagus Soop

Asparagus Soop

Release Date: June 6, 2019

Label: Asparagus Soop (Self-Released)

There’s something in the water in Perth, with Asparagus Soop being one of the many amazing new bands to hail from this cosmopolitan Australian port. I often find that certain songs just click from the instant you start listening, and “Try” was easily one of those songs for me. The intro starts off strong with heavy, layered percussion, building into a crescendo with heavier and heavier electric guitar riffs that pick up the tempo to a feverish pitch until ultimately giving way to the lead singer Cal Benzie’s pleading, dominant vocals. There is something so unexplainably raw and real about Benzie’s delivery, which plays well off of the distorted, stripped down guitar and powerful drumming. Even the lyricism is coarsely unfiltered: “I woke up / On the wrong side of the bed / And don’t know why / I can’t stop making rude remarks and rolling back my eyes / Nothing anymore / Motivates me to go on outside”. Make no mistake, though, “Try” is not your typical disheveled grunge track: Asparagus Soop’s coastal roots come through to refreshingly infuse the single with some of surf punk’s carefree and lighthearted attitude. Sonically, think early-nineties Pearl Jam with a healthy dose of Skegss.