Too Much Blood

Album: America Give Up (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Howler frontman Jordan Gatesmith recalls the misery of his college days on this track. He told NME: "I went to college for a year before dropping out. I remember being in my dorm room and thinking about how it'd had been the worst year of my life. I'd broken up with my girlfriend, I was drinking too much and I was stuck in Minneapolis in the winter. It's all a bit emo."

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