After bursting onto the scene in 2020 with their debut EP Subway Songs, NYC outfit Rebounder have earned opening slots for artists like MUNA who have similarly embraced elements of the early ’10s indie-pop movement—as well as for Twin Shadow who helped to establish it in the first place. As they anticipate the release of that project’s follow up with Sundress Songs due out in September, they’re currently gearing up for an East Coast headlining tour in support of the new EP.
In the meantime, we’re getting a second taste of that forthcoming release with the brand new single “Library,” which features vocal harmonies from Purr’s Eliza Barry Callahan on the infectious chorus. The breezy guitar-pop anthem was first ideated while frontman Dylan Chenfeld was holed up in the local library—hence the slightly misleading title for a song about, in his words, a dissolving relationship. “The little voice memo app names the memos after the location you are in, so the song has always been called ‘Library,’ and that theme seeped a bit into the lyrics,” he shares. “Our guitarist Zack’s mom says it’s her favorite in the set, before we knew it, it had turned into a real family affair. Be like Zack’s mom.”
The new tune arrives with a music video that mixes footage of the band performing the track (with the help of Callahan) with an all-too-familiar narrative to anyone who’s ever played a game of pick-up basketball in the park—there always seems to be a guy who wants you to run it back, no matter how exhausted you look. Check that out below, and find tickets for that upcoming East Coast headlining tour on their website here.
