Superchunk Announce New Album, Share Lead Single “Is It Making You Really feel One thing”
Songs within the Key of Yikes Due Out August 22 by way of Merge
Jun 02, 2025
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Superchunk have introduced their new album, Songs within the Key of Yikes, and shared the lead single “Is It Making You Really feel One thing.” The album is due out August twenty second by way of Merge. See the brand new observe and album particulars under.
Superchunk is Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jim Wilbur, and Laura King.
McCaughan spoke concerning the new observe in a press launch. “This track is about not second-guessing your self within the very second-guessable technique of writing phrases and music. It’s concerning the authentic query of ‘who wants this and what’s it good for?’ but in addition about not setting such a excessive bar for making artwork that you simply by no means get began. ‘Is it making you’re feeling one thing?’ Okay, that’s a spot to start out.”
The band’s final launch was the upcoming album’s first single “Bruised Lung” that includes Rosali. This shall be their first full-length launch since Wild Loneliness in 2022.
In regards to the album as an entire, McCaughan says: “It’s at all times been the case that everybody goes via one thing that you could be not concentrate on. That is presently extra true than ever—but in addition the case that we’re all going via some issues collectively. Within the face of that, what good is artwork and the place is happiness discovered? (Spoiler alert: I don’t know.)”
Songs within the Key of Yikes Tracklist:
1. Is It Making You Really feel One thing
2. Bruised Lung
3. No Hope
4. Care Much less
5. Climb the Partitions
6. Cue
7. Everyone Dies
8. Caught in a Dream
9. Prepare on Hearth
10. Some Inexperienced
Superchunk Tour Dates:
Sep 05 Richmond, VA – Richmond Music Corridor
Sep 09 Washington, DC – Black Cat *
Sep 10 Philadelphia, PA – Ardmore Music Corridor *
Sep 11 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom *
Sep 12 Boston, MA – The Crystal Ballroom *
Sep 13 Portsmouth, NH – 3S Artspace *
Sep 14 Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater *
Sep 16 Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Cafe & Music Corridor *
Sep 17 Cleveland, OH – Grog Store *
Sep 18 Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Eccentric Cafe *
Sept 19 Sawyer, MI – Out There (Particular Acoustic Present)
Oct 09 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
Oct 10 Las Vegas, NV – Greatest Pals Fest
Oct 13 Denver, CO – The Gothic Theatre ^
Oct 14 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – City Lounge ^
Oct 15 Boise, ID – Shrine Social Membership Ballroom ^
Oct 17 Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern ^
Oct 18 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios ^
Oct 19 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios ^
Oct 21 San Francisco, CA – The Impartial ^
Oct 23 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom ^
* w/ Tee Vee Repairmann
^ w/ Case Oats