Ever the provocateurs and ever the trailblazers in that process, 9 o’clock Nasty spare no punches on the rather confoundingly titled “Mood Is Low”. Bringing out their signature style, there’s a rage to this track, a bellowing and powerful smashing audacity that they bring out with a garage rock sound that’s unfiltered, expressive, and continuously audacious. With a fervour like few others, they yell my mood, my mood, my mood is low in a way that’s bound to grab you off your own feet when you’re feeling like shit’s got you down. It’s an anthem for when things don’t seem to be taking off in the right reason.
How’s your mood baby? they ask. And, writing this when I find myself in the throes of one of the lowest, can’t get out bed days in recent memory, I find a way to channel that sadness, that seeming lack of energy into a rage, a battlecry, a reason to stand up even when I’m exhausted and feeling lower than ever.
That’s what this brand of punk rock does for me, and that’s precisely why the bellowing madness and cathartic raw rage of 9 o’clock Nasty never fails to get me off my feet.