PWR BTTM get melancholy with ‘New Hampshire’

New York punk duo PWR BTTM have shared a brand new track, ‘New Hampshire’. It appears on a fancy new UK version of their debut album ‘Ugly Cherries,’ along with another previously unreleased song, ‘Projection’. Having come out in the U.S. last year, their debut is out over here on 7th October.

A step away from PWR BTTM’s flamboyant, thrashy moments, ‘New Hampshire’ sees the queer-identified garage-heads contemplating burial grounds, and everything coming to an end, instead. “When I die, please bury me in New Hampshire, I really like the leaves,” instructs Ben Hopkins over gently picked guitar. “Don’t be sad, I’ve done my share of living.”

“It’s a song about greener grass,” Ben Hopkins explains in a press release. “I wrote it during a period of time where I hated where I lived and who I was there, and I just felt so helpless that like I figured whenever I did inevitably wither away the parties that be could ship me somewhere better. Reflecting on it, the hopelessness I felt was actually in me, and the place I was in or where I wanted to be couldn’t help things if I wasn’t willing to help myself first.”

Listen below.