Toronto Art-Punk Provocateurs BAD WAITRESS Announce New LP With Ferocious First Single “Lovin’ Kind”
Toronto punk quartet Bad Waitress return August 31 with “Lovin’ Kind,” the first single from their new album In The Hollow, arriving October 30 via Stomp Records. Their first full-length in five years, the self-produced record pushes the band’s volatile punk into darker, stranger and more introspective territory. Drawing from the abrasion of L7 and Babes In Toyland, the nervous energy of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the heavier pull of METZ and Fugazi, Kali-Ann Butala, Katelyn Molgard, Moon and Nicole Cain have built a sound that constantly shifts between playful and threatening. Forged in Toronto’s punk underground and sharpened through releases like Party Bangers: Volume 1 and No Taste, that intensity has carried them onto stages alongside Fucked Up, L7, Rise Against, Wolf Parade and The Bronx.
With In The Hollow, however, Bad Waitress turn more of that confrontation inward, exploring isolation, identity, relationships and the uneasy experience of looking back at earlier versions of yourself. Five years away haven’t made the band cleaner, calmer or more interested in easy resolutions—they’ve simply found new places to direct the tension. “Lovin’ Kind” captures that evolution perfectly: a volatile love song where attraction collides with defensiveness and vulnerability, arriving with its guard up, its teeth showing and one hand already reaching for the door.
Bad Waitress turn romance into something volatile on “Lovin’ Kind,” a tense, self-aware single recorded with engineer Josh Korody at Wychwood Sound in Toronto and produced by the band themselves. Built around the contradiction between craving intimacy and instinctively pushing it away, the track tangles attraction with resentment, vulnerability and self-sabotage. When Butala declares, “I’m not the lovin’ kind,” it lands less like an admission than a warning. The song constantly pulls in opposite directions—come closer, stay away, tear me apart—capturing the uncomfortable thrill of recognizing a terrible romantic decision and walking straight into it anyway.
That emotional uncertainty makes “Lovin’ Kind” a fitting introduction to In The Hollow, an album shaped by isolation, changing relationships and the experience of looking back at earlier versions of yourself after you’ve changed. Drawing imagery from the Northwest Territories and Pacific Northwest, Bad Waitress use dark forests, wilderness and mysticism to give those deeply personal questions a larger landscape. Across the record, the band wrestle with identity, sexuality, memory and transformation, focusing not on cleanly escaping the past, but on the messier process of deciding what still belongs to you—and what you’re finally ready to leave behind.
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