Both will be featured on the band’s sophomore LP, 'More Like Me,' due out May 7.
Karli Morehouse, the songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Lipstick Jodi, is a force to be reckoned with. Karli announced the return of her Grand Rapids-based trio last month with the ferocious single "do/SAY". Today, Morehouse continues to scorch the earth with the follow-up track, "Going Insane." Both will be featured on the band's sophomore LP, More Like Me, due out May 7 via Quite Scientific. Pre-order More Like Me here.
Discussing the embers sparked "Going Insane", Morehouse stated, "At the time I started writing 'Going Insane', I was at one of the most stable points in my life. I found myself surrounded by well meaning friends, had a decent day job, was working out consistently for the first time in my life, and had gotten engaged to someone I had been seeing consistently for 2 years. All things I had spent my early 20s wanting, but was instead cycling through self-destructive behavior surrounded by people who weren't looking out for anyone's best interest, including mine. On what I'm sure was a very normal day, I could feel myself slipping into a depression/anxiety episode that could have been triggered by anything. I knew I had a stronger grasp on how to handle it, but at this point in my life I was afraid of how the people around me would start treating me. Before I got into boundary work and practiced mindfulness, I would find any self-destructive way to escape my anxiety. It's how I watched others handle things and I was conditioned to do the same my whole life. But I had done the work to grow through a dark time in my life, and wanted myself and everyone around me to know that I was 'not playing games' and I wouldn't be reverting back into old, toxic habits.Because of my lack of intention while writing, it ended up developing into an entire song about where I was mentally and how I couldn't handle it the same ways I used to. 'Not going insane now', was a phrase that kept repeating in my head. As if I needed to keep assuring myself there was no way I was going to let myself fall back into my old ways of coping. Every lyric in 'Going Insane' can be isolated and pointed toward a situation or a repeating thought I have had. It was a song that started writing itself, really."
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