A Sonic Shiver in the Summer Heat – “Dream Weapon” by King In Yellow

There’s something wild and worn about Dream Weapon — like flipping through an old zine under fluorescent lights at midnight, feeling both awake and a little undone. King In Yellow, hailing from Kingston, NY, unleashes a track that pulses with raw nerve and dreamy disquiet. It’s loud, sure — a thrashing, humming kind of loud — but it’s also thoughtful, almost philosophical in its pacing and edges.

You can feel the fingerprints of Sonic Youth and The Jesus Lizard all over this thing — in the crunchy guitars that sound like they’re melting into each other, in the snare hits that feel more like stabs than beats. But Dream Weapon isn’t an imitation. It’s soaked in its own sweat and summer dust, recorded deep in the woods of New Paltz where the isolation wasn’t just a theme, but a presence in the room.

Brendan Williams helps the band thread the needle between control and chaos, using a hybrid of live tracking and modern polish. The result? A sound that breathes — erratic, human, unfiltered. Lyrically, the song peers into loneliness, but not the soft, sad kind — the manic kind that buzzes in your chest when the world won’t slow down.

Dream Weapon doesn’t ask to be liked. It dares you to feel something. And that’s exactly why it hits so hard.