B-Side Guys

There’s something perfectly fitting about a song born on the empty floor of an Orlando apartment ending up as a post-hardcore meditation on generational sacrifice. Anxiety Attack’s “So Lie to Me” transforms absence into presence, turning blank space into an echo chamber for inherited trauma.

The Tampa outfit’s latest single builds from a deceptively gentle piano foundation—appropriate given its living room floor origins—before expanding into something far more volatile. What begins as a grandson’s grief morphs into a broader examination of familial debt, with lines like “Cutting ties/Or whatever you like” delivered with the kind of bitterness that only comes from watching someone you love give everything away.

The production particularly shines during the bridge sequence, where “Don’t you remember/The promise that I still keep” crashes against waves of instrumentation that seem to physically manifest the weight of memory. It’s here that the band’s post-hardcore credentials fully emerge, with arrangements that understand the difference between chaos and catharsis.

What’s most striking is how the song’s structure mirrors its subject matter. Just as the narrator’s grandmother sacrificed herself piece by piece, the track repeatedly builds itself up only to tear everything down, leaving only that haunting refrain: “So lie to me again.” The repetition in the outro—”So Lie/So Lie/So Lie To Me”—feels less like a chorus and more like a mantra for processing loss.

For a band that describes themselves as trying “really hard and stuff,” Anxiety Attack has created something that transcends mere effort. “So Lie to Me” stands as proof that sometimes the heaviest things are built from the lightest moments—like sitting alone in an empty room, missing someone who gave everything away.