When we caught up with FIDLAR four years ago to discuss the experimental turns their 2019 LP Almost Free took, Zac Carper put the new direction in pretty blunt terms: “We got fuckin’ bored,” he told us. Fast-forward to last August and the West Coast punk trio were returning to their noisy roots with the one-off single “FSU,” a track that they’ve announced today will appear alongside other recent releases “Sand on the Beach” and “Taste the Money” on a new EP titled That’s Life, which is set for release on March 17 at the onset of an Australasian tour.
Meanwhile, the band is sharing a fourth cut from the six-track EP titled “Centipede,” a callback to their tastefully abrasive early material as filtered through a clear reverence for late-’90s/early-’00s pop rock, with Adam Schlesinger’s witty lyrics coming to mind during the calm verses tucked between the heavy choruses. “She’s my oasis, but she treats me like I’m a blur,” Carper wearily sings of a relationship fractured by the vocalist’s extensively self-documented misanthropy. Here’s hoping he gets his 100 gecs shirt back if things don’t work out.
Watch the Ryan Baxley–directed clip for the new track below, and check out the band’s imminent West Coast dates leading up to the EP release here.
