REVIEW: Paris Texas Smashes With Brash New Single and Accompanying Video for “PANIC!!!”
☆ BY Kristian gonzales☆
Photo by Alexis Gross
ON THE CUSP OF THEIR COACHELLA DEBUT — LA-based duo Paris Texas is ready to kick the door down with new music in 2023. Following a 2022 that saw them heating up festivals such as the Governor’s Ball and Boston Calling, along with a banger performance at Kenny Beats’ DOTS show in LA next to Rico Nasty and MAVI & the release of their standalone single “cyanide” featuring cryogeyser . Paris Texas season is certainly here. Ahead of their forthcoming debut album, the pair smashes with their brash first single out of their upcoming music, “PANIC!!!” accompanied by a new music video directed by Bradley J. Calder and Neema Sadeghi.
Piercing with a clash of sinister synths, shredded guitar melodies, and clunky drums, the track packs enough adrenaline to make the listener want to spear a brick wall. Members Louie Pastel and Felix throw themselves headfirst into the musical chaos, flinging out bars with no care for polished flows. They’re both in pure “no fucks given” mode, with lines like “This not a handout,we not relayin/Competition all we do is dust it, I’m the type to hold her face and fuck it/I’ma hold her hair up if she suck it”. The video amplifies the single’s rowdiness, featuring the duo caught up in a mosh pit as gunshots pop off and a crowd-goer rips another's arm off, before the video cools down into the duo chilling in a car to an unreleased snippet of new music.
“PANIC!!!” continues Paris Texas’ signature blend of punk, rap, and electronic. Born out of a fusion of Felix’s affinity for underground hip-hop and Louie’s taste for post-hardcore upon meeting in community college, they emerged as part of a new genreless wave of hip-hop artists, including Jean Dawson and Kenny Mason. Paris Texas conjures the sunny guitar-laden skater funk of NERD and Odd Future. They debuted with their first two EPs, Boy Anonymous and Red Hand Akimbo, in 2021, containing grimy yet groovy songs such as “FORCE OF HABIT” and “girls like drugs.” Bum-rushing the rap game with a kaleidoscopic sound, the duo aims to inject a renewed sense of spontaneity back into the genre.
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