"I have given myself the impossible task of explaining why Possible Human’s ‘Standing Around Alive’ is some of the best and most vital music of the here and now. I really don’t think I can capture it, but also maybe the inexplicable quality this fairly straightforward, melodic rock ‘n’ roll group possesses is a big part of their charm.
On my initial handful of listens ‘Standing Around Alive’ had an energy that’ll be immediately satisfying to fans of their previous LP, ‘Everybody Split’ (2019), like Neil Young attempting to gel with The Cleans’ most propulsive, Neu-like motorik rhythms. I don’t use these references lightly.
With more listens incredible bits jump out of this immediately satisfying sound, distinctive guitar lines, countermelodies and snippets of lyrics lodging themselves to the red and pink area underneath my skull and ribcage.
Like their contemporaries Dumbells and Rosali (with Mowed Sound), it rescues classic rock from the costumed dorks, as did the ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life’ bands of the post-USHC, pre-”Grunge” era.
I’m very unaware of Possible Human’s collective aims or influences, but will add Anonymous ‘Inside The Shadow’, Sneaky Feelings, Guided by Voices ‘Under the Bushes Under the Stars’, and The Stevens to the list of references I don’t dish out unless I mean it"— Nic
Repressed Records, 2025