B-Side Guys

Red Velvet Supreme, a brand new NYC psychedelic blues rock trio, structured “A Matter of Time” like a disaster movie with precise timestamps for each escalation. The band calls it their trippiest single yet, and they’re not overselling: a ripping solo arrives at 1:20, a psychedelic electronic drop hits at 3:00, and the apocalyptic climax detonates at 6:05. It’s a hard-hitting story about aliens invading New York City, which makes sense—what better setting for extraterrestrial warfare than the place already practiced in chaos?

The six-minute runtime gives the track room to build tension across movements, using the stoner rock toolkit of heavy riffs and extended instrumental passages to create mounting dread. That electronic drop at the three-minute mark recontextualizes everything before it, suggesting the invasion might be as much technological as physical. By the time the apocalyptic climax arrives past the six-minute mark, the song has earned its destructive finale through careful escalation rather than cheap pyrotechnics.

Their debut album Just A Little Taste For Ya positions the trio somewhere between classic rock foundation and psychedelic experimentation, and “A Matter of Time” demonstrates they understand narrative arc matters even in instrumental-heavy music. The aliens get their invasion, the city presumably falls, and the song ends having completed its mission. Sometimes you don’t need lyrics to document collapse—you just need precise timestamps and the willingness to let chaos unfold for six minutes without apologizing for the length.