B-Side Guys

Honeysucker’s debut EP “Headed for a Dive” chronicles six scenes from a city that never learned how to grow up. Released January 24th, these tracks turn cramped Brooklyn apartments into recording studios and late-night regrets into anthems.

“New Dust” opens with pharmaceutical energy, setting up characters who mistake chemical courage for the real thing. The band transforms their self-proclaimed “Land Locked Yacht Rock” into something sharper here, cutting smooth arrangements with jagged edges that mirror their protagonists’ desperation.

The EP’s strength lies in its precise details rather than broad statements about urban life. “Loneliness” captures the specific emptiness of waking up to yesterday’s texts, while “Frida Kahlo” examines how we turn fleeting connections into personal mythology. Each song creates its own contained world while building the larger story of a city full of people trying to postpone adulthood indefinitely.

Sam, Jack, Zach & Gavi recorded these tracks in their apartments, but the constraints of home recording become advantages. The close-quarters production suits songs about spaces where personal and physical boundaries blur. “Buzzcut Girls” finds unexpected romance in familiar locations, while “BQE” turns highway underpasses into venues for temporary escape.

Throughout the EP, Honeysucker maintains a delicate balance between polish and grit. Their arrangements blend seemingly contradictory elements – slick production meets raw emotion, calculated professionalism collides with genuine desperation. This tension reflects their characters: young professionals by day, amateur hedonists by night.

The songwriting consistently finds fresh angles on urban isolation. Rather than rehashing familiar complaints about city life, they dig into specific moments where connection proves simultaneously essential and impossible. A chance encounter under elevated trains becomes a metaphor for temporary escape. A romantic gesture in an overpriced studio apartment carries the weight of ritual.

By closer “Lost,” the EP has mapped a complete emotional geography of prolonged adolescence in overpriced apartments. The track serves less as conclusion than continuation – another night beginning as the previous one ends, another chance to mistake chaos for adventure. The production here reaches its fullest realization, matching sonic sophistication with emotional complexity.

These six songs suggest Honeysucker knows their audience because they are their audience: young professionals burning through their best years in expensive closets, trust fund rebels slumming it authentically, service industry veterans watching scenes repeat with different faces. The band captures this world without judgment or glorification, finding humor and humanity in equal measure.

“Headed for a Dive” plays like a collection of stories overheard at 4 AM, when stranger’s confessions start to sound like prophecy. The band’s attention to sonic and narrative detail transforms familiar scenes of urban struggle into something more revealing than mere documentation or celebration. They’ve created an EP that works both as party soundtrack and morning-after reflection, depending on when you choose to press play. Copy