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Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 and Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low have formed a band
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 25 January 2019
I can’t tell you how much of my life I’ve spent wondering what it would be like if Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 and Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low formed a band. Well, I could, but it’s a secret. Anyway, I already know, because they have formed a band, called Simple Creatures, and released their first single together, called ‘Drug’.
“‘Drug’ is always the first song we play people when introducing them to Simple Creatures, so it only makes sense that it’s the first single”, Hoppus tells Kerrang. “I love the ratty guitar lead mixed with the thumping kick drum. Lyrically, the song is about being destroyed by the things you love”.
Gaskarth adds: “‘Drug’ is a song about someone or something you want the most, being terrible for you. Feels great until it doesn’t, but then you can’t stop. In the studio it felt immediately like it was the song that best defined Simple Creatures; it’s gritty, grimy, rooted in the musicality we both came up on, but with a twist that takes it away from anything we’ve worked on before”.
Anyway, you should all stop wondering what it would sound like if Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 and Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low formed a band, and instead listen to ‘Drug’:
