Description
Badflower – This Is How The World Ends – Compact Disc
Badflower’s This Is How The World Ends is the band’s second studio album, released on February 19, 2021 via Big Machine / John Varvatos Records, and it’s a louder, more outward-facing record than their debut—less diary-in-a-closed-room, more “looking at the wreckage outside the window.” It keeps the core Badflower formula intact (sharp hooks, big dynamic swings, Josh Katz’s emotionally direct vocal delivery), but it widens the scope: the writing leans into social anxiety, media overload, modern masculinity, addiction, and the way personal damage and cultural chaos start to blur together.
The album sits in that modern alt-rock lane where grunge-adjacent guitars and pop-structured choruses coexist. The riffs are thick and immediate, the drums are punchy and clean, and the songs are built for impact—verses that coil tight, choruses that open up hard, and bridges that often pivot the emotional meaning of what came before. The record is produced by Matt Drenik, and it has a consistent, polished loudness without feeling sterile; it’s designed to hit quickly while still leaving room for darker lyrical turns.
A big reason this album connected with listeners is the way it uses catchiness to smuggle in discomfort. Singles like “Family” and “My Funeral” are built like anthems, but they’re also packed with biting detail—songs that can sound fun at first pass and then start to feel increasingly bleak as you actually listen to the words. The title track “This Is How The World Ends” frames the album’s theme in a deliberately blunt way: not apocalypse as spectacle, but apocalypse as slow-motion burnout—people coping badly, relationships fracturing, and the noise getting louder than the signal.
For fans of contemporary alternative rock that still values big choruses and real emotional stakes—music that can live on rock radio but doesn’t sand off the rougher feelings—This Is How The World Ends is Badflower leaning into their strengths with sharper focus and bigger range. It’s hooky, heavy, and uncomfortable in a way that feels intentional: an album that wants to entertain you, then leave you thinking.
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Track Listing
Adolescent Love
Fukboi
Family
Johnny Wants To Fight
Stalker
Everyone’s An Asshole
She Knows
Only Love
Sasshole
Don’t Hate Me
Tethered
Machine Gun
My Funeral
