Like A Motorcycle have been keeping busy in quarantine. Full speed ahead on a shiny new label (Known Accomplice) the band are now three singles in on a year. While noting that the band have “slowed down” much like everyone else for the duration of Quarantine 2020, they’ve already released “Wide Awake” and “Idols” and are now following up with a fresh new “anthem of depravity”—complete with lyric video—”Satan Does The Numbers.”
It’s hard enough to find a good accountant, especially one who will justify our bad habits, questionable spending, and able to figure out how to claim our CERB money on our taxes. Apparently, for the right price (hint: it’s Mammonism), old Lucifer himself will crunch the numbers and cook your books.
The new single from Like A Motorcycle gets into the less-than-admirable impulses that come with having a little too much time and money on our hands, the inevitable result of which are ten digits getting skimmed by the devil, and significantly less money to worry about.
As the band put it, “Satan Does the Numbers” is an interpretive guitar duel, designed to “explain our nihilistic side, exploring what it means to ignore all signs of danger and knowingly charge headfirst into a situation fraught with pitfalls.”
And if 2020 can be described as anything, it’s a situation fraught with pitfalls. If we’re worried about our good deeds being tallied against our sins, this would be the year to recognize if someone has a thumb on the scales.
“‘Satan’ is a tune about all the nefarious fuckery that goes on in the seedy-after-hour underbelly of the music scene,” explain Like a Motorcycle about their new single. “It is about the (relatable) impulse to shift responsibility onto literally anything outside of yourself to keep the party going. Acting like no one’s in control when you know damn well you’re in the driver’s seat about to floor yourself, and maybe all your pals, off that friggen cliff.”