The band says, “‘A Bug’s Life’ is about not being the bigger person. It is about the moments in which violence could be the answer. It’s about being just as small as the itty-bitty, minuscule fools that hurt you first. It’s about telling people that deserve to eat dirt to choke.

“We live in a society that venerates this idea of being polite and kind and quiet even whilst people with less empathy and self-awareness than a rock take aim and shoot whenever the urge overtakes them. High road? In your dreams.

“This song is a declaration. One in which I refuse to be the perfect victim, unmarred by anger, or god forbid, agency. I don’t have a clean record and I don’t want one. And the consequences – be it guilt or burnt bridges or whatever else – are things that I’m prepared to endure. Because I’ve reached the end of a 27-year long rope. Because I am not a punching bag and I don’t know why so many people have forgotten that I’ve got fists too.

“Cheers to being a bug.”

Lullabies For Dogs:

1. Centrifugal Force
2. Catharsis
3. Two Nights in New York
4. Have Faith, Horatio
5. Bread and Circus
6. Icarus
7. Because I Am My Own Dog
8. She Simply Left
9. The Needle
10. The Suture
11. A Bug’s Life
12. IWYTWT
13. Hospital Bills and Scratchers

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“This song deals with what it means to be an adult who’s playing music and also has bills to pay,” Allen says. “I’ve wanted to do this my whole life, and I’ve never second-guessed that – but now my frontal lobe is fully developed, and I’m starting to wonder if this is really going to make me happy or if it’s going to tear me apart.”

CHASE PETRA’s music has always been about growth: growing up, growing out, growing tired of what others expect of you. The Long Beach, CA trio have used that metamorphic mindset – along a stirring blend of rock, emo and pop on their debut album, 2019’s Liminal – to establish themselves as one of the underground’s most exciting new acts.

It’s their sense of figuring things out in real time that makes vocalist/guitarist Hunter Allen, drummer Evan Schaid and bassist Brooke Dickson so relatable, as the band’s “quarter-life-crisis pop” elevates deep introspection to navigate the messiness that comes with modern life. The band’s new single, ‘Centrifugal Force’, continues this quest atop theatrical, bass-heavy grooves, grappling with what it means to grow up and be grown up, to see your once-bright dreams dulled by the responsibilities of adulthood.

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