Burton Badman “Fields of Confusion”

Tel Aviv-based alt-rock band Burton Badman returns with their fourth single from upcoming debut album The Opposite Way. Hard-hitting, addictive and disruptive, ”Fields of Confusions” journeys through the darkest and the deepest trauma that haunt us in life like a hundred ghosts. In the track, Burton Badman sonically depicts the intense confrontation, setting its scene in a darkly fierce inner battlefield, casting out the ghosts, leading to a final salvation.

Between the smooth, charming vocals that coil up the lyrics like a candy-infused hallucinative drug and the warm-toned guitar riff that teases you with its magic, the flickering, distorted lead guitar dives much deeper under the surface. The in-between, the bridges, and the solos are swelling up, lurking, uncontrollably.

It’s really fascinating how Burton Badman channels this sort of a big, badass, distorted personality sonically while exploring the fragility of it being untamed and tamed. There’s a lot of power in the art of giving up power, which makes “Fields of Confusion” quite a magnificent track.

Through the constant darkly guitar sonics, “Fields of Confusion” tackles the haunting, disruptive nature of trauma. It shatters you like a stream of electricity (the guitar literally churns in your ears that way). While on the surface, the melody, the center riff, and the lead vocal poses a lullaby-like quality as illusive as it is charming. The soaring never really stops.

“Fields of Construction” gives a very powerful, almost palpable portrayal, channeling the ugliness and the darkness that trauma could carry and destroy. Near the end, the guitar solo wails in a ghostly horror, creating a visual image of a hundred ghosts fleeing.