modernlove. relish in latest single “Don’t Feel Myself”

Irish four-piece pop-punk band modernlove. relish in an existential crisis in their latest single “Don’t Feel Myself,” an ironically honest headbanger. With elements of early 2000s pop punk, the chords are strong and simple and the lyrics are chanty and alive.

The song begins with an electric guitar riff reminiscent of something of a 2014 Paramore song. The first verse details who we are when around friends versus the version behind closed doors.

The lyrics continue into the chorus, with the admission and title: “I don’t feel myself”. The lyrics ask “Won’t you stay around? / You know I’m gonna need you on the way down”, words hitting their high note on the word “stay”, for desperate emphasis. The verses are quieter and build into the chorus and eventual bridge. The song’s glimmer of hope comes here, “I can’t feel my legs / But I keep dancin’”, right after a guitar solo and chanty chorus. Appropriately, the song ends ultimately on this glimmer and cuts quickly to silence after the last lyric is sung.

The band goes on to say, ”’Don’t Feel Myself'”is about going through bouts of disassociation, existential crisis and having a crisis of identity compounded with unhealthy lifestyle choices and coping mechanisms.It explores these themes through an analogous story of a ‘mad night out’ in which we drunkenly stumble through a number of different shady settings and wrestle with all kinds of troubles/situations from panic attacks and derealisation to bursts of mania that inevitably end up in us being consumed with existential dread the morning after.”