Portland Alt Rock Act Forty Feet Tall Share New Single “We Can’t Go Back To Normal”
Portland, Oregon alternative rock group Forty Feet Tall have shared their politically-charged single “We Can’t Go Back To Normal”. The four friends – Cole Gann (lead singer/guitar), Jack Sehres (guitar), Brett Marquette (bass), and Ian Kelley (drums) – were heavily influenced by the driving rhythms of ’80s post-punk and the distorted waves of ’90s grunge for their new track.
Frantic drums and splashy guitar riffs provide a wave of sound for Gann’s storming vocals to get their message out. The band elaborates:
“This is our most blatantly political, angry song we’ve made. Cole wrote the lyrics pretty freshly off of protests and it talks about very specific events that happened in Portland, as well as much broader problems that everyone experienced and continues to experience. We fell into this mantra, “we can’t go back to normal”, which seemed to synthesize it all into a sentence. Whatever so many of us considered “normal” was brutality.”
Listen to the charged-up single below: