It’s only been two and half years since we dubbed Minneapolis trio VIAL “sunshine punks,” yet their latest single from their follow-up to 2021’s Loudmouth couldn’t be further from that descriptor. “apathy,” the final taste of the group’s upcoming album burnout before it lands at the tail end of March, is a significantly grungier take on that sound while the spiteful lyrics skew closer to the butt-rock dirges of Three Days Grace than anything that came out of the ’90s PNW scene—in other words, the perfect track to land immediately before Valentine’s Day.
“We wrote ‘apathy’ as a form of catharsis, screaming about all of the feelings—and lack thereof—that we have gone through in the course of being young adults navigating different kinds of relationships,” the band shares of the new track, which takes a darker turn instrumentally than the upbeat singles from the record that landed before it.
Check out the lyric video animated by Claire Minnihan below, and pre-order burnout before it arrives March 29 via Get Better Records here. The band will be touring North America shortly after—find those dates here.
