Steele | Save Room

Greg

First off, can we acknowledge the album art for this single? A tribute to Ray’s pizzeria in all of its cartoonish glory? Hell yeah. Now as for the song itself, Steele’s baritone monotony works well with its repetitive backbeat and the hook is as relaxing as a summer day drive. Save Room is easy listening with earworm possibilities, would love to see more from Steele. 

Andre

I will be honest the first 15 seconds of the song scared me. I thought I was in for another Mac Demarco clone way past the age of Mac Demarco. And I am glad that “Save Room mp3” was not that and have this inkling suspicion that Steele knew exactly what they were doing. The song is a great little alt-indie-pop song that really gets easier to listen to again and again. My music history knowledge is not as strong as my knowledge of esoteric Jeopardy trivia so I can’t really delve too much into how it sounds or what it sounds like. But I will say it sounds good.

Sean

Steele has given us a superb slacker garage track in their single “Save Room mp3”. Grungy but charming the song is the carefully distressed leather jacket I dream about finding on the rack at a thrift store. The vocals droning and winding throughout the track make for some head bobbing good times. At the same time the guitars add lush distorted texture. Looking forward to hearing more from this band.

Dillon

(Brooklyn) Steele’s “Save Room” is funky indie-pop, with fairly simple, yet effective backing instrumentation. The track shines brightest in its lyrics and Steel’s disaffected and somewhat closed off vocal delivery. Steele effectively and evocatively spins the story of a person afraid to open up, afraid to take up space in someone else’s head. In essence, someone afraid to be loved. It’s this combination of clever lyrics and downtempo vocals that elevate this track. I dig it. There’s something interesting about an artist being this self-awaredly open about having trouble opening up. Hopefully, Steel’s willing to open up on some other topics with follow-up tracks. 

Mary

This musician is just named ‘Steele’. Not ‘Brookyn Steel’ the Williamsburg music venue, not ‘Bethlehem Steel’ the super awesome band in Brooklyn I somehow never saw live. A month ago I thought I “discovered” Rebecca Ryskalczyk’s 2015 bandcamp presence only to learn she has a whole band...she’s the lead vocalist of Bethlehem Steel. Anyway, Steele is a talented musician! Lots of engaging chorus’s and stanzas (?) and everything. Groovy, jammy, excellent electric guitar. I like his voice.