Belgian alternative punk rock outfit Captain Kaiser has released the new single ‘Drive,’ off the band’s forthcoming album Jay Maas-produced LP ‘Rhyme&Reason,’ due out later this year on [PIAS] Recordings.
‘Drive’ is the loud and clear announcement for a new phase of Captain Kaiser. With a punchier, heavier, and more emotional sound, the band’s frontman Sascha Vansant wrote ‘Drive’ after the passing of his mother. Even without knowing this, one can easily hear the pain of loss and the feeling of driving senselessly into nothingness.
Vansant‘s lyrics soothe the soul as much as they cut it like a knife. You hear him search for every word, and in the end, the catharsis is deserved. It’s easy to imagine how he looks up to the sky, his band giving it all one more time in a rare euphoric moment on this quite dark, yet life-affirming record.