Stream: The Drives, ‘Not That Bad’
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Having flexed their muscle on their 2021 EP, “This Might Take a While,” the Drives — Andrew Levin, Casey Chen and Geo Botelho — spent a good chunk of this year in their Highland Park studio stirring up a new batch of visceral indie-rock.
“Not That Bad” is the first taste of their second EP. It’s a likably rough-and-tumble slab of power-pop that, like many of the trio’s songs, deals either directly or obliquely with mental health. In this case, it’s about getting out of your own head in matters of the heart.
“This song is an attempt to capture the aftermath of a romantic relationship that ends before it really starts,” singer-guitarist Andrew Levin says. “It’s that point when you are just getting to know someone and then things slow down for whatever reason, so you can’t really be sad about anything, even though you clearly are. People end relationships for a million different reasons and sometimes it has nothing to do with their partner anyways.”
Geffen Shichor filmed the video for the single.
||| Stream: “Not That Bad”
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||| Previously: “End at the Door,” “The Comedown,” “OCD”
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