Maneater – Curb Your Appetite

Maneater knows that friendship grows like a muscle, but breaks like a bone. Curb Your Appetite, the duo’s debut album, reflects a decades’ worth of tearing and repairing the tissue that connects the band to each other and to their changing worlds.

Along with album announcement, Maneater is releasing the single “Good Things.”

“Good Things” is biting, bitter, and quietly mournful. Beneath its sharp-tongued, halfway-sarcastic title lies the aching realization that the person you worked so hard to understand never really showed up in return. The track captures that hollow moment when the mask slips, and you’re forced to reckon with who someone actually is – and how much of yourself you lost trying to meet them halfway. With a simmering undercurrent of resentment and resignation, “Good Things” moves like the end of something once promising: not with a bang, but with the weight of knowing better. It’s the sound of trust cracking, care collapsing, and clarity finally cutting through.

After a painful friend group fallout, Lindsay and DJ found themselves living in different countries, unsure if their friendship, or their creative partnership, could survive the distance and tension. Time apart eventually gave way to reconnection, as they began exchanging song ideas and co-writing tracks by trading MP3s online.

When DJ returned to Vancouver, the two reunited in person, reigniting their bond and deciding to bring Maneater back to life, picking up where they left off to finish their long-awaited album. The result, a 10-track release chronicles a time of emotional and geographical separation between the bandmates, touching on shifting relationship dynamics, the struggle to feel valued by yourself and others, and the drive to save whatever you can hold.

The themes may be tender, but the songs have bite: searing riffs, digestible fuzz, and deceptively sweet vocals that spit out hook after hook through a blood dripping smile. Drawing a wide range of comparisons that include the warm, keyboard-laden sound of The Rentals and the driving distortion (and queer legacy) of Sleater-Kinney, Maneater carve out a sound that’s all their own — lush, playful, and fucked-up catchy. Underneath layers of radio-ready melodies, Curb Your Appetite reveals the sinewy gore of caring about other people.

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