Badflower 's debut album, titled OK, I'm Sick , will finally arrive on February 22. From that title, you can expect the themes of the band's breakthrough single "Ghost" to carry through the rest of the album.
"The album...is very different than the Temper EP we put out [in 2016]," frontman Josh Katz tells ABC Radio. "It's way more in the vein of what 'Ghost' is, just in terms of lyric writing and the style and the detail and confronting topics."
"Ghost," a raw, unflinching portrait of a suicide attempt, peaked at number two on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock Songs chart. No one is more surprised by the fact that "Ghost" is the centerpiece of the album than Katz himself, who originally wrote the song as a way to cope with his panic disorder.
"I didn't think it was gonna make the album, let alone be a single," Katz says. "I thought, 'This is probably too intense for most people, but I really love what this is and what it's becoming, and I wanna finish it.' And then when I played it for the band and management and label and everybody, it just became the single."
The decision to release "Ghost" as a single, Katz says, "terrified" him. But now, he says, he's proud that it's become the entry point for many to Badflower's music.
"I'm really happy that this is the song that's introducing people to us," Katz says. "I feel like it is the right song for people to hear for the first time and...dive into what we do."
Here's the OK, I'm Sick track list:
"x ANA x"
"The Jester"
"Ghost"
"We're in Love"
"Promise Me"
"Daddy"
"24"
"Heroin"
"Die"
"Murder Games"
"Girlfriend"
"Wide Eyes"
"Cry"
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