Better Off Alone with Will Sims – A Rough Wake-Up Call

A Cocktail of Rock, Funk, EDM, Rap, and Blues

While wandering around, I found the next song – and it hit me hard. From Baltimore’s gritty streets straight into your ears, Will Sims brings Better Off Alone, a single brewed in a back alley with broken records, cheap whiskey, and stubborn dreams. Growing up in the ’90s, Will Sims soaked up the sounds of Alternative Rock and Pop like it was breakfast. You can hear it stitched through everything he makes. For Sims, the whole point of making music isn’t about chasing clicks. It’s about building a bridge – getting personal, hitting nerves, and maybe making somebody out there feel a little less alone.

And now, let’s talk about Better Off Alone. Out since April 21st, 2025, this track crashes rock, funk, EDM, rap, and blues into each other – because why not? And Will Sims pulls it off like a pro. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tony Correlli at Deep End Studio, this piece didn’t exactly stick to the polite little groove it started with. Instead, Sims and Correlli took the bassline for a spin, slapped on some synthetic horns, threw in a piano thing over the rap part for good measure, and let electronic chaos sneak in like a drunk neighbour at a backyard BBQ.

Letting Go: No Poisoned Friends Allowed

The message of the song punches harder than a bad hangover. It’s about cutting the dead weight – those soul-suckers that clog your life with stress and drama. Will Sims started writing this beast with a bit of a Kasabian hangover, inspired by the grooves of Club Foot and LSF. But as the studio sessions got messier, better, realer, Better Off Alone grew some unexpected teeth.

In the middle of jamming and fixing whatever mess the bassline was throwing at them, a rap verse slipped in. Will, who’s not even a big rap guy, figured the track needed some grit – and grit it got: lived-in, honest, and frightening real.

Better Off Alone with Will Sims – Brewing It Live and Loud

You can feel it straight off – this young guy’s packing something real, and he’s not shy about handing it over. Will Sims is cooking up a storm with an album release show on August 23rd at Brewer’s Haven in Baltimore, MD. If you can’t wait, catch him live on May 31st, opening at a Baltimore music festival for Deep Blue Something. Yeah, the Breakfast at Tiffany’s guys. Better Off Alone was even featured once on the Charm City Sampler. Proving that sometimes real talent floats to the top like a bad idea you just can’t ignore.

These days, our brains get hammered with nonstop content, all designed to keep us wired and distracted. And then a song like this shows up. It slices through the mess and drives one truth home: get yourself a damn good producer. Sims credits Tony Correlli for taking a straight-laced rock idea and mutating it into something that feels alive. Dirty and unforgettable. If you’re smart, you’ll catch Will Sims on his Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Bandcamp or YouTube – before everyone else pretends they knew him first.

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