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“Fishy,” the latest single from Champaign-based quartet Nectar, opens with a dark, sludgy bassline before blossoming into the kind of sticky sweet riff-driven pop-punk anthem the group has made into its trademark sound. It’s exactly the kind of bait-and-switch viewers of Catfish have come to expect, and for lead singer/guitarist Kamila Glowacki, binge-watching the MTV show served as the perfect inspiration for an atypical love song.
With Nectar, Glowacki has often been drawn to the contrast between upbeat melodies and melancholy lyrics, a tradition “Fishy” proudly carries forward by presenting a narrative wherein feelings toward a new crush are tinged with anxiety and uncertainty. “Does it make me stupid / To want to believe / Everything that you say to me,” questions Glowacki as the guitars kick in and overpower these concerns like the blinding monomania of a new relationship: “You’re the one that I want to see.”
Originally released on a split 7” with Jupiter Styles (fka Single Player), Nectar re-recorded “Fishy” during the same sessions that produced “Blister,” a standalone single from earlier this year that DIY Magazine hailed as, “full of upbeat guitar rips, and the kind of 90s-esque vocals that you sang along to in your favourite teen films, it's gonna be your new self-love anthem.”
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