Oakland post-punk rockers Street Eaters will release their brand new studio album Opaque this Friday, September 5 via Dirt Cult Records.

Since their last album in 2017, not only did they weather a global pandemic along with the rest of us, frontwoman Megan March also had a child. While becoming a mother was, as she puts it, “an incredible joy and opportunity to rewire emotional pathways and deep wounds,” childbirth was both a traumatizing and transformational experience. Ironically born on the Fourth of July, her baby immediately entered a world steeped in bureaucracy, as the hospital was so understaffed that Megan was neglected until the last moment, forced to endure an emergency C-section.

New single ‘No Excuse’ clatters in next like a rusty tank — eerily appropriate for these times. “It’s about seeing all of these near-apocalyptic military situations that we keep careening toward over and over and over again,” No says. “The toxic idea of war where you don’t even realize that you could blow up the whole world just for these political distractions that result in genocide,” March adds.