howled

I didn’t articulate any of this at the time, but a previously unknown, murky appendage in my brainstem lifted its head and howled disagreement.

“If you think Miller Lite is going to carry you home, you’re wrong,” he howled during one service in his native Louisiana.

“Get them kids up out them cages!” they howled, as guitars and electronics chugged and squalled around them.

With howled, deadpan lyrics like on “Join in the Chant,” McCarthy set a template for how punk’s urgency could lock into dance music’s meticulousness.

When Noah and I took the win, we howled.