As unapologetic and intense as it is undeniably catchy, Buddie’s impassioned protest anthem “Impatient” is a seismic, seductive alt-rock upheaval from a cog in the machine.
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What really makes Buddie’s latest single such a hit is that not only is it heavy; not only is it hard-hitting; not only is it intense, unapologetic, and unforgiving; but it’s also undeniably catchy.
Released October 23rd via Crafted Sounds, “Impatient” is a seismic and seductive alt-rock upheaval from a cog in the machine. It’s a frustration-fueled reckoning with modern living – an infectious and all-consuming anthem through which Dan Forrest and co. channel the weight of a fractured world into our ears, into our hearts, and into our souls.
You feel impatient, going numb
Things are out of control
Slipping out through
Fingers and thumbs
What’s at the surface is sh*t
Take your whole life
and spend it underground
You ask “what’s in it for me?”
“Will I come to?”
Angst and anxieties mount in the verses until everything comes spilling out in a cathartic, invigorating chorus. Buddie recall pop/rock greats like Weezer and Blink-182 as they pour their all into both their words and their guitars, making for a moment that is as loud as it is heated:
Wish ya could be running away
Just like back when you were thirteen
Slam the door, run right cross the street
Oh, instead you’re digging up the ground
Up the ground
“‘Impatient’ is about being forced to participate in a broken system,” Buddie’s Dan Forrest tells Atwood Magazine. “It’s doing pointless work to get by, for someone else’s profit, feeling suffocated by it, and looking for a way out. It’s knowing the ways you’re complicit, feeling the weight of these harms, and searching for a different path.”
“It’s a 2-and-a-half-minute grunge pop song to vent your frustrations and find a community of solidarity. The track is two years in the making, the first fully collaborative release by Buddie’s Vancouver lineup after relocating from Philadelphia. It was recorded both with Jay Arner and by Buddie at home, and mixed in-house by Buddie’s own Patrick Farrugia.”
A familiar face on Atwood Magazine‘s pages for the past five-plus years and counting, Buddie has come a very long way – both musically, and physically! – since Dan Forrest’s project first debuted in 2018. The artist we previously praised for “channeling his innermost reflections and reckonings into a spellbinding eruption of alternative angst” holds nothing back on “Impatient,” doing what he does best all over again.
How can we take it?
A broken nose
Like a punch to the face
from the owners of our homes
While we work for our pay
Take our paychecks
And spend ‘em in the hills
While you’re working away
Do you think to?
It’s a 2-and-a-half-minute grunge pop song to vent your frustrations and find a community of solidarity.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and “Impatient” wields that sword especially well as Buddie dwell in both past and present,
wishing things could be simpler, like they used to feel when we were younger, and hoping still to find a solution to our current aches and pains.
Solutions are admittedly scarce, but they’ve got us riled up and ready to go – no more digging up the ground, no more taking punches to the face.
Channel that impatience into action, break the cycle, and fix the damn system!
Wish ya could be running away
Just like back when you were thirteen
Slam the door, run right cross the street
Oh, instead you’re digging up the ground
Up the ground
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