Alkaline Trio have shared an excellent new single, Versions Of
You.
The trio’s latest effort hears Dan Andriano take the lead, with
the bassist/vocalist explaining of how it came together: “From the start there was
something really exciting about this one, a raw energy we didn’t want to let
go. I was playing guitar and showing a part to Cameron, Matt grabbed a bass and
created this killer disjointed groove under what became the verse. It felt raw
and ferocious, and we knew that’s what we had to capture, so that’s how we did
it when the red light came on.”
Dan adds that Versions Of You is “a song about sorting through
the rubble of a broken friendship and realising there’s just nothing there to
try and rebuild… that maybe the whole thing was artificial and driven by
self-serving motives.”
The track is taken from Alkaline Trio’s new album Blood, Hair,
And Eyeballs, which is due out on January 26 via Rise Records.