“Buzz” is the sound of your brain melting in real time, and Vienna Vienna is standing over the pot stirring with a neon-pink tambourine, grinning like he knows exactly what he’s doing to you. This isn’t a song—it’s an electrical short circuit dressed up as indie rock, the kind of thing you blast at 2 a.m. when you’re still vibrating from the world’s nonsense and your own nervous system is staging a coup.
From the first fuzzy guitar scrape, Vienna Vienna makes it clear we’re not here for serenity. No, “Buzz” is an ode to the modern condition: everything’s too loud, too fast, too stupid, and somehow too bleak and too hilarious at the same time. The drums punch like they’ve been up for three days on caffeine and catastrophic headlines. That tambourine? It’s the little voice in your head going, “Why is everyone like this?” except now it’s keeping time.
Vienna Vienna sings like a man who’s seen the abyss, took notes, and decided the only reasonable response was to write a banger. “I’ve seen a devil, I’ve seen a devil buzz,” he mutters, tossing off lines about eight-dollar despair and societal decay like he’s reading coupons for the apocalypse. It’s bleak poetry wrapped in party lights, and that’s the brilliance of it—he’s not escaping reality, he’s dancing in the wreckage, kicking up dust, laughing because crying is too predictable.
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There’s a ramshackle glory to the whole thing, the same spirit that drove punk kids to scream about alienation except now the alienation has Wi-Fi and a subscription model. Vienna Vienna taps into that jittery youth-doomerism vibe without turning it into a costume. This isn’t nihilism—it’s survival by groove. The man understands that if the world insists on bombarding us with existential static, the least we can do is turn the buzz into a hook.
“Buzz” joins earlier singles “Idle Hands” and “Company Hunting” in this expanding universe of glimmer rock, where queerness, chaos, humor, and heartbreak swirl together until they’re indistinguishable. But this track is the most potent hit yet. It feels like the EP Entertain Me tearing through its chrysalis, wings twitching, ready to thrash its way into every overstimulated ear.
Vienna Vienna isn’t trying to save you. He’s trying to make you feel alive in the middle of the noise. And with “Buzz,” he damn well succeeds.
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–Leslie Banks