Song Recommendation: “NPC” by Weakened Friends (2025)

A minor-key garage rocker that’s such an earworm that it might take a few spins to catch how utterly dark the lyrical content is: “Maybe I’m just already dead or I’m living in a simulation. But honestly it makes me depressed that this is the best thing someone could invent.” Later, before a bonkers guitar solo from the featured Buckethead, lead singer Sonia Sturino dips into straight nihilism: “Here daydreaming of annihilation: maybe we should just hit reset, it’d be the best thing to stop it all and start it over again…[but] I think we’d go and wreck it all again, caught in a loop pattern.” And yet, it’s catchy as hell and, honestly, I can’t actually debate any of the points made here so it’s best to maybe just sing along.