Words: Ellie Ward
Brisbane punks Haters - Jai Sparks (guitar/vocals) and Jimmy Priest (drums) - come crashing through with a blistering debut single, 'Feel Better'.
The two-piece have been chipping away in the jam room for a few months, writing songs and preparing for their first live show last Friday, to launch the single, which was produced by Brisbane producer Nell Foster.
“The brain is a beast. I’d really become a handful at the point of writing this and was personally exhausted with just waking up being me," reveals Sparks. "I’d stopped having a lot of feeling towards others and also towards myself. I wrote myself off with a bottle of whiskey in a park during the day. It was a moment where I realised I was actually incredibly sick. I think no matter who you are there is a moment in your life where you think 'Is this it?' and this is what I was thinking the most when I wrote this song.”
The garage-rock tinged track is coupled with frank lyrics that are a reflection of a time when poor mental health was rife and the realisation that comes with rock bottom and a need to improve drastically.
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