Reetoxa is having a busy season. Hot on the heels of Bottle, the thirty-year-old song Jason McKee finally recorded this year, comes You Deserve Better Than Me, released July 3, 2026 and drawn from Soliloquy, the twenty-six-track autobiographical double album that gathered songs from across McKee’s life into one sprawling personal document.
The single was recorded with the same team behind Bottle: producer Simon Moro at The Avenue studio in Cheltenham, Victoria, with Peter Marin on drums, James Ryan on guitar, and Kit Riley on bass. One detail from the session worth noting: a late structural suggestion from Riley reshaped the arrangement’s movement, and the band locked in the final take quickly from there, the kind of contribution that comes from experienced players who know when a song needs one more idea.
The Single
Where Bottle was a story of teenage urgency and friendship, You Deserve Better Than Me turns inward. The title lays the theme out plainly: it is a song about loving someone while doubting you are what is best for them, about self-questioning inside a relationship and the painful generosity of wanting more for someone than you believe you can give. Within the larger Soliloquy project, a record that traces McKee’s life from adolescence to adulthood, it represents one of the more vulnerable entries, which is likely exactly why it was chosen to stand on its own as a single.
Releasing it back-to-back with Bottle also makes a point about range. One single looks outward at a remembered night; the other looks inward at a hard feeling. Together they sketch the breadth of what Reetoxa’s catalog covers.
Final Thoughts
You Deserve Better Than Me is a personal song given a proper band treatment by a songwriter who waited decades to release his material and is now making up for lost time. If Bottle introduced you to Reetoxa, this is the natural next listen, and Soliloquy is waiting behind both.
You Deserve Better Than Me is out now. Released July 3, 2026. Find Reetoxa at reetoxa.com and on Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok.
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