Cold Expectations is a dark, jangle-pop band from Boston MA. Formed in 2016, Steve Prygoda (guitar, synth, and vocals) and JoEllen Saunders Yannis (bass, vocals) have shapeshifted the band’s sound over the years, creating 21st-century pop songs that borrow from the post-punk and new wave past. Mike Demers (Winter Project/Krebstar) fills out the band with incredibly poppy driving rhythms.

The song is Cold Expectations’ anthem to the weirdo art punks feeling isolated, misunderstood, and completely alone. Who knew there were so many of us that felt that way growing up? Our armor from the mundane, conformist world was leather jackets, trench coats, army boots, furious hair, and ferocious mixtapes, the weirder the better. 

For the video, the band crept around the recently emptied Sound Museum rehearsal rooms on the move-out day as the venerable rehearsal space was closing, with JoEllen’s teen skateboarding through the hallway sporting a vintage “Sound Museum” tee. The frantic and energized vision for the video was brought to its glorious conclusion by ace videographer Allison Tanenhaus, who also produced the band’s “Two Blueberries” and “In the Padlocked Night” videos.