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Wax on Water Revive Obscure QOTSA Classic.

8/9/2022

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One of Queens of the Stone Age's finest deeper cuts, 'Mexicola' is a swaggering, sultry slice of dessert rock. Taken in a trippy, electronic  new direction by London band Wax on Water for a stand alone single release, it's a surprising left-turn. 
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Wax on Water are an alternative rock band based in fronted by singer, songwriter and producer Maya Damaris and featuring virtuoso rock guitarist Steven Blessing. The experimental London two-piece have been catching the ears of many music industry insiders both in the UK and the USA with their adventurous fusion of grunge, electronica, strings, keyboards and intense guitars. Ahead of the release of second album 'The Drip', they've gone old school and released a standalone single.

Taking on Queens of The Stone Age's 'Mexicola', Wax on Water have dispensed with the tracks distorted bass, gritty guitars and stomping drums, and reimagined it as a Goldfrapp-esque dream sequence. And w
hile it's always applaudable to see a band put their own spin on a song, for fans of the original, this version will be almost unrecognisable by comparison.  

Performed and produced solely by Damaris, who also changes the lyrics up so the song is like a reply to Josh Homme’s along with cleverly added lyrics, this is more than a cover, but a response. It's a ballsy move, for sure. 

It's certainly interesting to have a new 
point of view take on the original track, rather than a run of the mill cover version, and  the video, which can be viewed below, serves to add an extra layer of surreal, not so splendid,  isolation.

​Get 'Mexicola' from all platforms here: https://orcd.co/n7qrn4b
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