Anyone who ever said you can’t get a lot done inside of a two minute song just wasn’t prepared for the likes of Lesibu Grand this autumn, as her new single and music video “WFS” delivers one hundred and twenty seconds of pure adrenaline like few other tracks can. Punk rock has been through a lot of different phases in the past forty five years, but in 2020, artists like this one aren’t letting its fundamentals wither away in the history books. Lesibu Grand is giving them a sharp polishing in “WFS” and, to me, making her mark on a genre that could use some fresh heroes right now.

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One of the most exciting elements of this track is its over the top presentation, but outside of the visual camp in the music video I don’t think there’s space for criticizing the flamboyant filtration of the narrative here. The music is as loud as your volume knob should be from the second we press the play button forward, and though the instrumentation is a little compressed, its linear design was obviously meant to give the vocal here the majority of our focus. Lesibu Grand doesn’t need a boost to sound like she means business, and if you didn’t know that before, “WFS” will make it very clear.

I had not been made aware of this artist or her music before I stumbled across her new single by chance this fall, but with punk reactivating amidst a chaotic era in American and international politics, Lesibu Grand almost seems perfectly poised to launch a solid career out of the shadows of an underground circuit brimming with incredible talent. She’s got tons of fierce competition, but “WFS” does a lot to separate her music – and her ambitions – from the other output her peers have been producing.

John McCall