Crash the Calm Tackle the Dark Side of Addiction on “Sleep on the Floor”

New York’s Crash the Calm is back with their latest single, “Sleep on the Floor,” exploring themes of addiction, homelessness, and lost potential while critiquing society’s indifference and lack of support for mental health and addiction issues. Commenting on the single, the band states: “‘Sleep on the Floor’ follows an ambiguous narrative of someone dealing with addiction and homelessness. Referencing lost potential, desperation and unrealized dreams. Alongside this narrative is a parallel commentary on the lack of affordable, public and accessible mental health/addiction support. As well as the devolution of compassion, humane consideration and society’s mental decoupling of viewing themselves as virtuous and good while being complacent and dismissive in the treatment of their fellow hum...

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