Empty Habits turn digital bureaucracy into emotional chaos on ‘Life Insurance’

Empty Habits channel frustration, memory and raw guitar energy into ‘Life Insurance’, the striking lead single from their forthcoming EP Self-Sabotage.

Landing somewhere between modern indie rock, early emo and the jagged intensity of 90s and 00s post-hardcore, the track feels deliberately restless. Guitars push and pull with barely contained tension, giving ‘Life Insurance’ an immediacy that perfectly mirrors its unusual lyrical premise.

Rather brilliantly, the song takes something as mundane as filling out an online life insurance form and turns it into an unexpected journey through the past. As the interface asks increasingly personal questions, the narrator is dragged back through uncomfortable memories from adolescence, transforming digital bureaucracy into a trigger for unresolved emotions.

Urgent, clever and wonderfully abrasive, ‘Life Insurance’ makes for a compelling introduction to Self-Sabotage, and proves inspiration can strike in the most unlikely places.