We’re all imperfect and acknowledging that is your first step to be able to grow and be a bigger person.” I think the bigger picture of the EP is about being able to acknowledge that toxic behavior deep within you and instead of hiding it you let it be known. It’s about moments when you feel like you’re going crazy and sometimes I just need to scream about it. The track ‘Reanimation’ has been about my struggle dealing with death and feeling like the other side has been communicating with me. “I created the Cherry Cyanide EP as a way to express my feelings of paranoia that have been residing within me. Over the course of three fast and fierce songs, the bandmates lay themselves bare, displaying an intense vulnerability while sharing their faults, fears and demons as they sing of self-destructive tendencies, toxicity and being haunted from both people from the past and voices from beyond the grave.įrom the NYC Riot Grrrl Punk band, this is Cherry Cyanide.Īhead of the release, Bad Static lead singer and rhythm guitarist Nicol Maciejewska sent over some intel on the band’s brand-new EP and the difficulties, frustrations and personal craving for honesty and self-improvement that inspired it.
That brings us to the art of admission-or rather, admission as art, which is a perfect way to describe the killer new EP from Bad Static. A desire to air things out and let things go in hopes that it will help us start fresh and move forward. To share our secrets, bear our baggage and acknowledge that there are actions we’re not proud of, characteristics we’re ashamed of and behaviors that aren’t in line with who we see ourselves to be. Jokes aside, there is something inherently human about wanting to get our transgressions off of our chests. II” came out and we as a teenage society of MTV-addicted millennials collectively realized the real benefits of declaring your misdeeds.
However, as a more casual sinner who grew up in a less holy household and instead worshipped at the hallowed church of TRL (afternoon service, five days a week!), I prefer to trace the concept back to 2004, when Usher’s “Confessions, Pt. The NYC riot grrrl band’s EP is a three-track confession-an expression of paranoia, exploration of ongoing struggles and a coming to terms with one’s toxic traits as a means to move forwardĪccording to a quick google search, the religious tradition of confession goes back thousands and thousands of years.
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