Maneater – Closer
Today, Vancouver based Maneater share video for new track “Closer” off their debut album Curb Your Appetite arriving on October 17 via Monotapes.
The band have also announced their album release show in Vancouver to coincide with the release. The show will be at Green Auto with Slowicide and Semi.
The band says, A lot of our work is inspired by our relationship to each other and those around us. We wrote “Closer” to work through complicated feelings during a moment of friction between the two of us. We chose to not shroud any of the lyrical content in metaphor; the song is really just a conversation between two friends trying to work it out.
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. 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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