Laced with strange haunting sounds, Boose Caboose’s new single, “Staring Too Long” slaps slow and wide. It begins with bassy electronic drums surrounded by a distorted hum, like a wind that makes your hair messy. 

Then EVERYTHING comes in: An out-of-control dance-y bass, a slide-y shredding lead, and live drums with driving fills. Someone who’s stared too long at everything that’s not right sings, “Everybody looks, but I’ve been looking forward to it for two decades…” Boose Caboose answers with a nod to the physics experiment known as the Double Slit Test, “Whoa, it’ll land. Don’t stare.” 

Here we realize that too much focus can alter any good outcome. A lingering falsetto coo settles the song into its final act where we can bob our head to the beat, and find comfort in the fattest bass that lies under a wailing mirror of the first guitar solo.