Kevin Bronson on October 26th, 2018

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Younger Hunger are a trio who, their narrative goes, “came together after a night of playing Nintendo 64 and drinking milkshakes in Long Beach.” The question remains, though: What were those milkshakes laced with?

“Dead Inside,” the second single from Tony Davia, Lou Connor and Lauren Potts, is sticky with twentysomething angst, and it’s not big leap from there to out-and-out sarcasm. “You ask me what I want from life / I said, to make a lot of money and feel dead inside,” over a clatter of synths and percussion. “We were all at this party and I was having a bad night,” Davia explains. “So we all left to go hang out at our studio and play some N64. We ended up jamming, and that’s when we wrote the hook over an old cowbell loop. We wanted all of the synth tones to sound like Street Fighter II-style arcade sounds to commemorate the night. The whole thing came together really quickly, and it does a good job of representing our EP.”

Who knew that video games and early-life existential crises could be this catchy? “Dead Inside” follows the trio’s first single, “Sly.” Produced by Adam Castilla (The Colourist) and mastered by Joe LaPorta, Younger Hunger’s debut EP is out Dec. 7.

||| Stream: “Dead Inside” and “Sly”