Brooklyn shoegaze/alternative rock act Punchlove have unveiled their new song "Today You Can Learn The Secret" today.

An accompanying music video for the track, which can be seen here, was co-directed by Ian Lange-McPherson and viz_wel. Punchlove’s Jillian Olesen said this about the new song:

“This release is a surrealist, portal fantasy-inspired encounter with the unconscious mind. This latest song started with just the title itself ("Today You Can Learn the Secret"), and then Ian wrote all the instrumental parts. When it came time to write the lyrics, I had started leaving an open notebook next to my bed each night as a creative exercise in automatism I’d read about somewhere and basically started waking up to find all kinds of scribbles and chicken scratch all over the pages each morning. It was like scary psychological Christmas each morning. At times there was really raw stuff in there. It kinda freaked me out, but it was also exciting and really started to shift my perspective on my own humanity, as well as the world around me. It felt like I had a new window into understanding how certain things were really affecting me, and to start grasping the nuances of how I had been unknowingly absorbing and filtering my (excessively digital) daily stimuli on an unconscious level, from which I could begin to make real changes. So outlining my own experience and some of the recurring themes of these bizarre dream entries, O is the journey of moving from an outward facing, always-on, digital world in towards the deepest, darkest, realms of ourselves, where we are found face-to-face with our own humanity and mortality in new and unexpected ways.”

The song arrives before Punchlove’s trek with Lucid Express, which finds them playing cities such as Dallas and Chicago. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now here.

Punchlove tour dates

4/18 Austin, TX – Far Out Lounge *

4/20 Dallas, TX – Club Dada *

4/22 Davenport, IA – Raccoon Motel *

4/23 Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen *

4/25 Philly, PA – Kung Fu Necktie *

4/27 Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right *

* w/Lucid Express