FI QUICK REVIEW: Cheekface - "Black Site" (single, 2026)
LA-based indie rock band Cheekface delivers a power pop jam for a corrupt world
Los Angeles band Cheekface’s single Black Site doubles up every ingredient in the well-established Cheekface Cookbook to make enough sorta-middle-class protest power pop to feed the masses starved for meaningful rock: 2x driving beat, 2x ripping bass line, 2x painfully funny lyrics delivered irony-smothered but not masking the rage underlying them, and this one riff in the chorus that is so catchy literally everyone cheers when it happens, x2. Adding Cheekface to my favs on that morally-bad-but-too-convenient-not-to-use delivery app so I can get another slice of whatever they’re cooking on the double.
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