A-Sides: The Get Right Band and Their an “Itchy Soul” You Can Scratch

Listening to The Get Right Band’s new album Itchy Soul is yet another reason why you flip the bird at this year. It’s the type of record you want to experience live — the way it was intended to be. For now, as we wait for this shitshow of a year to end (and hopefully for it to take this horrid virus with it), we can revel in yet another stellar record released in 2020. The Asheville, NC trio of Silas Durocher, Jess Gentry, and JC Mears, who appeared on A-Sides four years ago for their last album- the charged Who’s in Charge, are firing on all cylinders on their new record, touching on themes they always have like politics and a world gone awry, but also honing their sound and expanding it like your waistline over these past few months in isolation. The band have always been genre-bending over their first four albums, but Itchy Soul takes it a bit further. Track by track, one song seems to stand apart from the last. One might sound right out of a 1970s pure rock playbook while the next comes off as 1990s alt rock in its hayday. Still, the album flows and somehow comes together effortlessly.

The Get Right Band recorded and mixed the record outside of a music studio. I caught up with Durocher on Zoom, and the band performed two tracks for me. Watch, listen, and try to use these as a small diversion.