The Sonder Bombs have released two albums worth of rip-roaring pop-punk already — 2018’s MODERN FEMALE ROCKSTAR and 2021’s Clothbound — but it seems like the Cleveland band is heading in a different direction for whatever’s next, as evidenced by their new single “waste.” It’s a muted, water-logged pop song, and Willow Hawks’ vocals are stretched out and twisted into a digitized warble.
“I’ve been really blessed to have people I love around me who inspire me to be myself. Let me grow in any direction I need,” Hawks said in a statement to Under The Radar. “‘waste’ feels like the first really honest song I’ve written for myself since ‘Twinkle Lights.'” Hawks continued: