Taste Test: All My Friends Hate Me plead for you to ‘Stay Up’
The indie-rock band depict frontman’s experience of being roofied on a new song.
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In a survey, of over 900 people, 44 percent of men and 56 percent of women alleged they unknowingly had their drinks spiked. Even more, out of this test group, 37 percent claim they have had drinks spiked multiple times. Detailing his own experience, singer-songwriter Bobby Banister – frontman of indie-rock band All My Friends Hate Me, also comprised of Beau McCarthy, Garrit Tillman and Xander Burmer – pleads with his girlfriend to keep him awake as he fights the sedative effects of an unknown drug. “I had too many drinks / The bar’s spinning now / Somebody get me a car / I think I’m freakin’ out,” he confides. Arena drums and clanging electric guitars wrap around his voice, gasping for breath with a gnarly throat scratch. It unpacks both a heavy lyric punch and a swirling mass of musicality, so it’s no wonder they’ll be making an official SXSW performance next year.
“Stay Up” is lifted from the band’s new album, Metal Butterflies, out everywhere now.
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