Five years can leave a lot of ghosts behind. On October 30, Toronto punk quartet Bad Waitress return with In The Hollow, their new full-length album via Stomp Records, and a record built from the strange experience of meeting old relationships, old memories and old versions of yourself from somewhere further down the road. Self-produced and recorded with engineer Josh Korody at Wychwood Sound in Toronto, In The Hollow takes the volatile punk Bad Waitress built their name on and stretches it into something darker and more expansive: jagged art-punk, post-punk tension and garage-punk abrasion colliding with moments of eerie space and reflection. Made up of Kali-Ann Butala, Katelyn Molgard, Moon and Nicole Cain, Bad Waitress have never been particularly interested in keeping things tidy. Their music can be funny, furious, uncomfortable and strangely inviting all at once, with roots running through the confrontational punk of L7 and Babes In Toyland, the wiry art-school instincts of Wire and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the heavier noise-rock pull of METZ. In The Hollow keeps those instincts intact, but the world around them has changed.
