With their latest EP, the four-song A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time, Spanish Love Songs adopt their roomiest and rangiest perspectives to date. Though clocking in at only 14 minutes, the project follows a cogent arc, as the band and various guests, including Kevin Devine and Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin, traverse the tundra of disillusionment and egoic right-sizing. Unsurprisingly, Brief Intermission, like 2023’s No Joy and 2020’s Brave Faces Everyone, brims with distinct earworms.
On “Lifers Too”, Slocum articulates anger (at his parents’ generation), guilt (about the actions of his own generation), fear (for the entire species), and apathy (as a result of being thoroughly overwhelmed). In Springsteenian…

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