WAKRAT Release New Song “Sober Addiction” And Announce Self-Titled Album For November 2016 Release

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Nu-metal/alt-punk trio Wakrat has released their new song “Sober Addiction”, as well as their debut self-titled album for a November release. The track can be listened to below:

The abrasive instrumentation and aggressive lyrics of the track calls back to classic-punk era acts such as Fugazi and Minor Threat. Surprisingly, the percussion is very jazzy, which gives the band some flair compared to other punk acts. Drummer and band namesake Mathias Wakrat has an extensive knowledge of jazz drumming. According to his bandmates, if he is shown a song from the bebop era he is able to name the drummer by ear.

Describing the lyrics to “Sober Addiction”, frontman Tim Commerford explained,

“Well, it’s pretty simple, truth be told. For me, it’s a sober addiction: my knee-jerk denial of opportunities in my life. “Goddamn it, why didn’t I do that?” I can’t tell you how many things I’ve thought that about, back in school or even within the context of being in Rage Against the Machine. “Fuck, why didn’t I say that then? Why didn’t I do that then?” Instead I just said no. I said no and that has always been. I think it’s not just me; I think it’s just people. It’s fear and it’s missed opportunities because of it. You want to do this? You want to go you know, like the other day, I was in the studio with Steve Jones, on Jonesy’s Jukebox and the Sex Pistols, that’s a band that I just loved. And I was like, “Hey, I do Sex Pistols at karaoke all the time,” and he’s like [imitates British accent], “Want to do a song, mate?” I was like, “Yeah!” But there was a big part of me that wanted to say, “Nah, I’m good.” And that’s what it’s about. It’s my sober addiction and it haunts me to this day, all the things that I said no to, that I should have given a shot, tried out, said yes. Tried it different. Done it differently. And then where would I be today?”

Wakrat will play at the Parisian music festival Rock En Seine and at Reading and Leeds later this week. Last weekend, Wakrat performed at Lowlands.