Boston indie-pop band The Q-Tip Bandits have announced their new studio album today.

Melancholy Flowers will be released on June 10. A new single from the record titled “Daisy” can be heard below.

Vocalist Leo Son said this about the new track, which is available on digital services right now:

“The initial spark for this song came after a visit to a childhood friend in Brooklyn. I hadn’t seen her in maybe 6 years and I noticed that her current lifestyle reassembled more of who I was when I first met her… searching for relief and meaning in my human experience through the use of mind altering substances. Now all the brilliance, honesty and compassion masked by a chemical lethargy but still ever present. Still shining in her warmth and loving energy, still trying to help others find self love, belonging and the light within themselves.
Reflecting on my visit while driving back home to Boston, I thought of my mother and her unconditional love despite the suffering this life has brought her. I thought about all my friends who struggle but still manage to show up for the ones they love. I thought about how so many of us, through our search for meaning, find solace in religion to then have that same religion condemn us. Then I thought of myself, and the years and years of masking my own pain with a warm smile and my own search for meaning and falling out of organized religion.
Then some time later, I sat down with this feeling and wrote the chorus to “Daisy”. For this friend and all the people who have masked pain and who continually put themselves second to show up and bring light into other people’s lives to say, “I see you” and “you are not alone.” With the more sparse verses, to balance out the “warmth” and fullness of the later sections, expressing the “cold” and lonely searching for that same light that is only found through our relationships and helping of each other. And in the climax of the song, a half time section of sweeping guitars, reverse piano, big drums, melodic bass and horns, we are delivered a both tragic and uplifting lyric and melody of the vocals to carry us into the end of the song."

The Q-Tip Bandits are currently in the midst of their trek across the United States, which features stops in Minneapolis and Chicago this weekend. Tour dates and tickets can be found here.

Last year, The Q-Tip Bandits were nominated for New Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards.