Manchester alt-rock outfit False Advertising release their new single ‘Acid Rain’ today, taken from their forthcoming album The Sorry Window, out May 1. The track arrives alongside a new music video and marks one of the band’s most immediate, pop-punk-leaning releases to date.

Following recent singles ‘Don’t Ask Me’ and ‘The Sorry Window’ (the album’s title track), ‘Acid Rain’ channels the urgency of mid-2000s pop-punk through the band’s alternative rock and grunge influenced edge. Written about the corrosive spiral of anxiety and the fight to move beyond it – with the music itself inspired by a dream Jen Hingley had about watching Fall Out Boy live – the track balances restless live energy with the band’s trademark honesty and bite.

“It’s not about sadness — it’s about feeling attacked by your own insecurity and fighting back,” she says.