Song Spotlight: Street Play's Choke (a night at the Lodge Room)

Street Play opened up a mid-December night at the Lodge Room in support of Faetooth. Of interest, both bands have a commonality. Ashla Razzano played in both bands, ending her run with both in 2023. If the reader is interested, she is currently fronting the folk band Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit. This was my first time catching the band that currently has Jenna Reynoza on lead vocals and guitar, Jake Pavlica on drums, and replacing Ashla Razzano on bass is Keely Martin. Back in 2021, Martin directed a Street Play music video called "Teeth Puncture Lust" for the band. I love all these connections between bands. It just reminds me of last year's Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and how all these artists randomly connected during the same timeframe.   

Street Play at the Lodge Room

Comment of the set: What's your favorite Christmas movie? (The audience shouting out random movies.) I love that one.

My review of the night can be found on US Rocker Music. You can read it here.  

Street Play's set started off the night with an intensity that played well to the early arriving audience that was primed for Faetooth's doom metal music. 

Street Play at the Lodge Room

I'll go with "Choke" for the song spotlight here. It was the band's final song of the night. The final song, duh, is the last impression you leave an audience. It was a 2 minute coda that ramped up the energy to transition the night to the other two bands of the night: Iress and Faetooth. It is a song that ends with drums rumbling like an earthquake and questions one's ability to form healthy relationships.  

i’m not sure why
i always choke
on this love sick smoke

Street Play at the Lodge Room

Setlist: Can't Say It out Loud, You Don't Know, Sprawl, Samhain's Delight, Heavy, Lycanthropy, Hard To Swallow, Dont Tell Ya Momma, Choke.