Weakened Friends - 'Nosebleed'
Weakened Friends give us another tastes of their new album 'Feels Like Hell' - due out in October with fresh single 'Nosebleed'. The track is about that emotional in-between when you’re not together anymore, but you’re also not really free from it yet.
The Tadin Brego-directed video mirrors the Kristen Stewart film Love Lies Bleeding, with bassist Annie Hoffman playing the gym manager and guitarist/vocalist Sonia Sturino portraying the shy, smitten, and broken (literally) bodybuilder. "Nosebleed" follows the simulation theory-inspired "NPC (feat. Buckethead)", album-opener “Tough Luck (Bleed Me Out)”, and the trio's cover of “Torn.”
"The song came out of a conversation with a friend who was talking about their breakup," says the band. "On the surface, they sounded like they were over it, but underneath it all, you could feel the weight of what they weren’t saying. It’s a feeling most of us know too well: pretending we’ve moved on while still being haunted by the past."
The story of Weakened Friends unfolds a bit like Fleetwood Mac’s—minus the cocaine, plus a dose of multivitamins. Just over a decade ago, Sturino invited Annie to start a new band. At the time, Annie was dating drummer Adam Hand. In a way that couldn’t be helped, Annie and Sonia fell in love and got married—and after the original drummer left—Adam, who had been out of the picture until then, stepped in. Crucially, he joined not out of jealousy, but out of love and support for Annie's journey and relationship. That gesture of solidarity turned what could have been a fraught situation into one rooted in mutual care—and eventually into music that reached and moved countless others.
