Toronto’s Bad Waitress have returned with I Only Like You When I’m Drunk, the track is the second advance single from their new album, In The Hollow, that will be released on October 30th via Stomp Records. Following August’s ferocious first taste Lovin’ Kind, the new single pushes further into the uncomfortable territory surrounding the record, turning intoxication, attraction and self-disgust into a bleary collision of jagged art-punk, garage-punk abrasion and wiry post-punk tension. There’s no enlightened narrator standing safely on the other side of a bad relationship, they’re still inside it, horrified by the attraction, ashamed of wanting it and looking for enough chemical distance to make the contradiction temporarily bearable. Whether the object of that fixation deserves the contempt is beside the point. The song stays locked inside the narrator’s own warped perspective.
In The Hollow arrives after a period in which all four members found themselves confronting different kinds of isolation and change. Old relationships and memories began looking different with distance, while questions around gender, sexuality and identity surfaced with new clarity. Rather than turning those experiences into tidy revelations, the band became interested in the less comfortable process of recognizing what no longer fits and figuring out what, if anything, comes next.
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