Hate Me (Too)

The tension here is baked into the structure from the first few seconds — a tight riff that implies confrontation before a word is sung. This is a song about a relationship that has curdled into mutual contempt, and the production mirrors that dynamic: everything is compressed into a kind of controlled volatility, guitars barbed and rhythmically insistent, the low end keeping a steady, almost threatening pulse beneath the melodic surface. Fraser's vocal delivery is precise and slightly cold, which is exactly right — this isn't a tearful ballad, it's an accounting. The emotional register shifts in the chorus from statement to something rawer, the melody opening up just enough to reveal the genuine hurt underneath the anger, then snapping shut again. Lyrically it captures one of the more complicated emotional truths about bad relationships: the way resentment can be shared equally, how two people can be terrible for each other and still remain entangled. There's a dark almost-satisfaction in the song, a sense of finally naming something that had been hovering in the room. Best heard at high volume when you need to validate the part of yourself that is done extending grace.