Single review: Yellow Cars - Entropy

Following the release of Exit Through The Gift Shop in March, Entropy are releasing their 2nd single this year, titled Yellow Cars. The 4-piece indie rock band from Kent are on their way to building a good set of original tracks, having released 3 songs in 2023, with In Gasoline being the most popular one.

If you pre-save the song, they will send it to you early.

Through the arrangement of the song, you can identify their intention to take you from a nice and sweet sound of acoustic strumming, to an escalation to dirty distorted electric guitar sounds, accompanied by heavy drums, giving you a wave of excitement in your chest. The first time I heard that, I immediately thought of Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day. There is also a little bit of Oasis colour somewhere in there. You can probably identify some of their influences, but in every case, they have their own character on the song, stamped by their music and their rather enigmatic lyrics.

Yellow Cars is technically about driving without the presence of loved ones, but the actual story is a bit of a mystery. It could be one of those songs that started with an inspiration from specific emotions, but then got developed with a different mindset, based on alternative ideas, keeping the listener wondering what is really happening, trying to apply their own interpretation of the actual meaning. It sounds like a story from the point of one character, eventually becomes the story of a different character. There’s definitely plenty of margin for applying your own theories there.

Yellow Cars is a beautiful song that will give you satisfying feelings. You can find yourself listening to it again and again, switching from relaxing to the sound of an easy listening song with those nice melodic bends, to closing your eyes and banging your head. And back again.

The production is brilliant, with the vocals clearly standing out through a loud sound heavily loaded with distorted guitars and drums. It keeps switching between acoustic and hard rock, in a way that seems to be working perfectly. And in fact, the way the song ends, sounds like setting you up to get back to the start. Repeat it is then.

It’s out on Friday 2 August 2024. Go and pre-save it. If you do, they will send you the song early.

Here's a preview of Yellow Cars: