Golden Triangle’s first single, “Neon Noose” is available this week via Hardly Art. Their album, Double Jointer, hits stores March 2.When can we stop talking about a garage rock revival and just come to terms with its endurance as a genre? Merely operating within those gritty, bare-bones confines doesn’t render an artist a revisionist or a revivalist (nor does it make them an innovator, of course). What matters most to me is whether they have their own voice, capable songwriting skills, and when it comes to recorded output, whether the production hits that sweet spot between lo-fi grime and punk rock muscle.Recent Hardly Art signees Golden Triangle are coming close, but I’m not entirely sold yet. Sonically, the first single “Neon Noose” (from their forthcoming full-length debut, Double Jointer) is an effective synthesis of psych-garage riffage and no-wave dirge, which should theoretically gain further texture via the quartet of male and female singers at play, but the simplicity of its cadence and the morose monotone of the femme side of the vocals bog things down a bit. Not so much to ruin the song, mind you, but just enough to envision this band being much more exciting live than on record. It’s just one track, however, so I’ll still be eager to hear the rest of the album when it drops on March 2.Hardly Art is streaming the MP3 on their site right now over here.