Familiar Drugs

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"Familiar Drugs"
Familiar-drugs-alexisonfire-artwork.jpg
Single by Alexisonfire
Released15 February 2019
Genre Sludge metal [1]
Length4:19
Label Dine Alone
Songwriter(s) Dallas Green, Jordan Hastings, Wade MacNeil, George Pettit, Chris Steele
Producer(s) Karl Bareham
Alexisonfire singles chronology
"The Northern"
(2009)
"Familiar Drugs"
(2019)
"Complicit"
(2019)

"Familiar Drugs" is a single released by Canadian band Alexisonfire on 15 February 2019, their first release of original music in almost 10 years. [2] [3] [4] Lead Vocalist George Pettit described the song as "being at a point in your life where you know you can make a change yet choosing to not make that change." [5]

Contents

The music video was released on 16 April 2019, directed by Michael Maxxis and was shot using VHS tape and cellphones. [6]

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Canada Rock ( Billboard ) [7] 50

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