Stream: StaG, ‘Colorado/Suicidal’

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StaG (Photo by Julien Garros)
StaG (Photo by Julien Garros)

On first blush, the forthcoming third album from L.A. indie-rockers StaG can be interpreted as either a scream into a pillow, a cry for help, a triumphant shout to the heavens or a diatribe on the perils of life as an over-connected, narcissistic, intimacy-starved, frayed-round-the-edges young adult. Or a combination of the four. “Don’t Check Out” will be out in March, and more on its mood-swing theater later. First, there is the lead track “Colorado/Suicidal,” a feat not just because it rhymes “Colorado” and “suicidal” but because of its endearing, fuck-everything spasticity. It’s not that StaG — the brainchild of Matt McGuire and Will Walden, along with Matt Hampar, Tony Denove and Casey Baird — really want to move back to Colorado (where McGuire and Walden went to college and formed the band), it’s just that they’d like everything to make a little more sense. They describe “Don’t Check Out” (recorded with Raymond Richards at Red Rockets Glare studio) as “bald, painful, emotional, silly and rhythmic grouping of songs that takes us through the loneliness that comes with adult life.” So scream if you must, but don’t check out.

||| Stream: “Colorado/Suicidal”

||| Live: StaG performs Friday night at the Lost Knight

||| Previously: “Hide,” “It Worked for Him,” “I Think I’ll Shout”