Serve me some crime on a regular Sunday
Are you gonna wait just to say you’d kill me?
You wanna cross another line, then leave it up to me
If you want another round, I’ll keep sipping it slowly
Noir Addiction’s Serve Me Some Crime comes on like a switchblade grin in the church parking lot, all bad intentions, bright surfaces, and the kind of spiritual smirk that suggests somebody already knows how the evening ends and has decided to enjoy the wreck anyway. There is something deeply pleasurable about a band that understands how absurd modern composure can feel, how daily life can settle over the nerves like office dust, and then answers that condition with a track built around taunt, abrasion, and a wink that lands somewhere between nightclub ritual and petty delinquency.
Serve Me Some Crime shamelessly toys with its ancestry without turning into a museum piece. You can hear Noir Addiction breathing in the perfume and poison of Depeche Mode, the corroded mechanical lust of Nine Inch Nails, a little of Gary Numan’s chrome-eyed chill, the gothic perfume of Bauhaus. There is also a streak of Stabbing Westward in the way the track lunges at emotional mess with industrial muscle, while the cleaner darkwave contour around the edges may catch the ears of people who have kept Twin Tribes and She Past Away in steady rotation.
Sonny Lanegan loads the song with thick guitar, synthetic pressure, and a vocal presence that carries the right amount of sleaze and self-amusement, as though he is leaning into the microphone to confess, mock, and provoke in the same breath. Behind him, Nessie Zorba and Roberto Catanzaro keep the whole thing tense and alive, giving the arrangement a hard spine and a nasty little swing. The result has industrial bite, rock ’n’ roll rot, and a pop instinct sharp enough to smuggle all that mischief into your bloodstream before you realize what happened.
The lyrics swagger through the stale air of a day built for manners and roast dinners, turning domestic routine into a private little riot. The singer toys with temptation, dodges sincerity with barbed humour, and treats emotional confusion like a party favor. Underneath the mischief sits a real hunger to break rank, crack the script, and stop living by somebody else’s rules.
Lanegan puts the song’s purpose plainly: “The word ‘crime’ in the song isn’t literal, it’s more about breaking small, invisible rules,” he says. “It’s about those moments when you don’t want to behave exactly how you’re expected to. A regular Sunday can feel predictable, almost scripted, and the song plays with the idea of shaking that up adding a bit of danger, irony, or mischief to something ordinary…At its core, the song is about freedom not the peaceful, inspirational kind, but the messy kind. The kind where you allow yourself to be contradictory, to not have it all figured out, to embrace a bit of chaos instead of pretending you’re always in control. It’s me saying: if life insists on being absurd, I might as well play along.”
The performance video, directed by Jack Lucas Laugeni, seals the deal. It catches the band in its natural habitat: lit beautifully, moving with confidence, looking like they mean every grimy joke and every glamorous threat.
Watch Serve Me Some Crime below:
Serve Me Some Crime is a strong first cut from Pretty Things Don’t Last: smart, nasty, funny, and built to leave a bruise. Pretty Things Don’t Last album will be released on July 16 via SoulPunx Records.
Listen to the track below and order the single here.
Noir Addiction will be touring in support of this EP, beginning with two special shows in Prague. Purchase tickets here.
- May 14 at Subzero Prague
- May 15 at Chapeau Rouge
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