B-Side Guys

Blues rock still tells the best morning-after stories. On “Bad Situation,” Finn proves this by turning domestic apocalypse into dancing weather, crafting a cheater’s lament that makes catastrophe swing. From its opening lines “Woke up to the thunder, storm rolling in from the south / The crack of lightning, was slightly frightening no doubt,” the band demonstrates exactly how to make personal disaster feel universal.

The production masterfully balances darkness and light. While the narrator attempts damage control – “Then I poured out the coffee, slightly toasted the bread / Put out the jelly, hoping to soothe her head” – the arrangement maintains an infectious bounce that makes his mounting desperation almost funny. Almost. By the time we learn “Another woman had come to lay in my bed,” that upbeat groove has become deliciously ironic.

Most striking is how the track’s structure mirrors its protagonist’s declining fortunes. Each verse reveals new depths of consequence, from the initial discovery through failed reconciliation to the final plea of “At least won’t you, let me see my son?” The chorus’s insistence that it’s “definitely getting worse” proves prophetic, while the suggestion of “that ancient voodoo curse” reads less like excuse-making and more like cosmic justice.

The bridge delivers particular punch when our unfaithful narrator reflects “So many years, have come-along on long-gone by / My scattered memory, vague and blurry life.” Here, the band pulls back just enough to let the weight of accumulated choices land before charging into one final round of that increasingly damning chorus.

Through their marriage of traditional blues storytelling and contemporary indie rock muscle, Finn has created something special – a morality tale that makes you move while considering how quickly paradise can become purgatory.