If you’re new to the sleepy post-punk revivalism of The Red Pears, think Is This It–era The Strokes if they’d grown up on the West Coast, with hints of indie-surf lapping up in the periphery of their sound. Better Late Than Never, the group’s fourth album (with by far the shortest album title), lands this Friday to kick off the first weekend of Coachella where the trio will take the stage—but before then we’re getting one last taste of the record with the rueful “See What I Mean,” a hazy garage-rock number wherein vocalist Henry Vargas voices optimism about learning from his mistakes.
“This song is very straightforward: mistakes are/were made and you can’t always be on good terms with everyone,” he shares. “But we continue to grow and learn. We implement the things that we worked on into new relationships, and if those don’t work out, then you learn something new from that experience, too. We’re all constantly changing and we don’t fully know one another. What you thought you knew last year will be completely different this year.”
The track—which Vargas cites as one of his favorite riffs on the record—comes paired with a skygazing lyric video, which you can find below. Pre-order Better Late Than Never here before it arrives this Friday, April 12, and if you’re in LA you can catch the band opening for Chicano Batman alongside Lido Pimiento on June 29 at Kia Forum.
