Tory Silver (she/they) is a Pittsburgh-based indie-rock musician whose music weaves elements of garage rock and indie pop to channel the small joys and inevitable uncertainties of residing in a body.

This week she announces her upcoming album In Through the Front with Lasers, out May 29 via Michi Tapes. It takes its title from a bandmate’s kidney stone procedure – “they had to go in through the front with lasers” — and deals with chronic pain, losing a friend to a cult, jealousy, overthinking death, and the jobs that make everything worse.

Produced and engineered by Melina Cortez Duterte (Jay Som) and recorded at Duterte’s Los Angeles home studio with additional sessions in Pittsburgh with Greg Kump, the album swirls together a mix of heavy guitars and catchy choruses, though the lyrics cut deeper than the production lets on. Bright surfaces covering raw nerves. The songs sit with discomfort, acknowledging that some things don’t resolve – they just persist – and locate the work in response: not how to avoid the pain, but how to meet it.

Alongside the album announcement, Silver shares the new single and video for ‘Microwave.’ Over jangly electric guitars, she muses on routines and tribulations, with the track coaxing wistfulness away from the mundane.

In Through The Front With Lasers:

1. Ross Saves The Day
2. Microwave
3. Boy Disco
4. Your God
5. Dogs
6. It’s My Time (Don’t You Roll Back)
7. Baby
8. Bend
9. It’s My Time (No More Left For No One)