Stream: SLUGS, ‘I Could Do Better’

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“I wrote this song as if it were an intervention on myself, and I was playing both sides,” Marissa Longstreet says of “I Could Do Better,” the wild and wobbly new single from L.A. quartet SLUGS.

The excursion into the psychedelic side of alternative rock is the first release this year from the foursome of Longstreet, bassist-singer Sarsten Noice, guitarist Josh Beavers and drummer Dash Hutton. Noisy with a splash of twang, “I Could Do Better” has a dose of the mischievous, irreverent glee found in some of the music of artists like the Breeders.

Says Longstreet: “I compared my carefree attitude as a child, finger painting an image of nothing, to the ‘I don’t care’ attitude of my 20s. … I wanted to find my way back to carefree innocence coming from a place of sinister repetition and complacency.”

Additionally, she says, the song is informed by the process of getting sober: “I think the theme is a voyage of floating in space, the big chaotic crash down and every small step after in getting grounded.”

||| Stream: “I Could Do Better”

||| Previously: “Super Sane,” “Bad Twin”