{"id":2312535,"date":"2026-03-04T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2312535"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:51:05","slug":"worcesters-many-kids-take-meds-debuts-new-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/worcesters-many-kids-take-meds-debuts-new-singles\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester’s Many Kids Take Meds debuts new singles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, we bring you another Bandcamp gem, this time from Worcester band Many Kids Take Meds<\/a>: their Feb. 4 debut single, the A-side and B-side \u201cDistant Memories\u201d and \u201cLast Day to Decide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The first thing we hear from this band, on \u201cDistant Memories,\u201d is warm guitar seventh chords that lead into a classic emo rock sound. It\u2019s a vibe that, if you\u2019re in your twenties or thirties and ran with a certain crowd growing up, will instantly put you in mind of autumn parking lot hangs, torn skinny jeans and oversized black hoodies.<\/p>\n

The liner notes don\u2019t list any band members\u2019 names, so sadly we can\u2019t tell you whose voice you\u2019re hearing, but the band’s quiet, drifting, and echoed vocals provide a contrast to that bright guitar, which comes in for a few notes after each line of the verses.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne more story and we\u2019ll all be on our way\/So take a look at all these distant memories\/Collect all our thoughts \u2018cause it\u2019s getting late\/Sit back and laugh, but this time we know it won\u2019t stay,\u201d they sing, answered by those guitar chimes each time.<\/p>\n\n

On the chorus of \u201cBut I can\u2019t hold on to what I didn\u2019t have, mirror, tell me what happens next,\u201d the full band comes in again at full blast, \u201cI took you for granted, but time moves so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

A shout of \u201cBut it\u2019s too late now!\u201d brings us to the coda, where the vocalist howls, \u201cRipped too many pages from my book\/Now all that\u2019s left is distant memories!\u201d and the band lowers the heat again, slowing down and cooling off.<\/p>\n

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The under-two-minute \u201cLast Day to Decide\u201d starts with a few seconds of silence and a scream, and then we hear a wealth of noise again as the lead vocalist laments the passage of time.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cSure enough a year passes\/I think I might have dropped my glasses\/She works hard to pass her classes, but it isn\u2019t enough,\u201d they sing.<\/p>\n\n

There\u2019s a harmonized chorus of \u201cCan\u2019t you see it means too much to me? Can\u2019t you hear? You left me in fear,\u201d and then one guitar begins to chug metal-style while another takes a solo full of bends high on the neck.<\/p>\n

As the clock keeps ticking, the song keeps pounding away and the stakes get higher and higher. The lyrics may be on the abstract side, but something here \u2013 be it a relationship, a person, a soul \u2013 is on its last legs, and our narrator is desperately trying to salvage the situation somehow.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid I step too far this time? The animal can\u2019t decide where it dies\/Can you make up your mind? The day of execution is the last day to decide,\u201d the two vocalists from the first chorus sing in harmony, and the track ends on an unexpectedly optimistic note over a major chord: \u201cI\u2019ll keep this between you and I.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDistant Memories\u201d and \u201cLast Day to Decide\u201d are available on music streaming services and Many Kids Take Meds\u2019 Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.worcestermag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, we bring you another Bandcamp gem, this time from Worcester band Many Kids Take Meds: their Feb. 4 debut single, the A-side and B-side \u201cDistant Memories\u201d and \u201cLast Day to Decide.\u201d The first thing we hear from this band, on \u201cDistant Memories,\u201d is warm guitar seventh chords that lead into a classic emo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2312536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[39915,22220,344721,6297,21741,21739,298114,47944,21800,307678,74947,239343,239420,147314,21939,22366,239344,349188],"class_list":["post-2312535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-bandcamp","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-ma","tag-music","tag-music-reference","tag-negative","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-reference","tag-rock","tag-rock-music","tag-u0026","tag-worcester"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Worcesters-Many-Kids-Take-Meds-debuts-new-singles.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312537,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312535\/revisions\/2312537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}