Seratones - “Good Day”

SXSW 2022 - OEB Score: 9; Popularity Index: 7

Pairs Well With…Brittany Howard, Yola, The Suffers

Soul swingers Seratones keep evolving their sound through a mix of classic R&B jams and indie pop atmospherics on the two early singles form Love & Algorhythms, gospel, rock, and funk grooves and melodies peppering “Good Day” and “Dark Matter”. The former is an expectedly upbeat and sunny proclamation, while “Dark Matter” brings midnight, deep soul instincts into outright ambient space, a powerful, serious vocal reflecting with sorrowful tenacity. While both songs aim for completely different outcomes, Seratones sound masterful on both and it’ll be interesting to see how the experimental bug that rides through these two singles informs the rest of Love & Algorhythms. Catch Seratones vibing at Mohawk on Saturday night with New West Records alongside James McMurtry, The Texas Gentlemen, and SUSTO. (Kevin McStravick)

2020 Review: While the Seratones’ 2016 record Get Gone takes notes from punk and garage rock, by the time we get to sophomore album POWER, the Shreveport, Louisiana band is a full-on soul revival, bursting with classic R&B melodies. There’s still some psychedelic rock/pop atmospherics to embolden Seratones’ grandly cinematic tone on POWER, but it’s the sweeping, passionate vocals that take their music to the next level. One thing that stands out track to track is how full Seratones’ music is, not just relying on a few hooks, but building ambitiously and with fearless abandon.