Katie Malco - "Animal"
Photo by Sam Manville When you first start listening to "Animal," the new single from Katie Malco, you'd be forgiven to expect a mellow, plaintive singer/songwriter track. And then the guitars kick in, and you're being brought on this unexpected ride of alt-rock bliss. "Animal" just straight up rocks, but it's still a deeply personal song for Malco. The song documents her experience in a small industrial town and using substances to escape. As she explains: " I couldn’t go home, but being out every night meant drinking or doing drugs every night. Sometimes it was genuinely fun and sometimes I became acutely aware that I was desperately grabbing at something I couldn’t find in my sober life – happiness, stability and a feeling of general ease. There was one night that always sticks out to me in my mind as a real low point because I was being a really bad drunk – embarrassing myself and feeling really unwell – and that’s what Animal is about....