Singer Alex MacDonald explains: “On the surface, this song is about being cryogenically frozen yet still conscious. Watching your loved ones grow old, wither away, and die without being able to communicate. At its core, it’s about fighting the painful realization of mortality and loss, and the desperate desire to connect. I’ve lost close friends that I think about every day and wish I could talk to. I feel like I’m constantly looking for a way to get a message through. Along with the finality of death comes this realization that all of the choices we make for our life along the way were permanent. This song almost didn’t make the record. I thought it was too slow and didn’t fit the band’s energy, but I was wrong. It turned out to be the emotional centerpiece, and it’s become a lot of people’s favorite song.”

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Alongside the announcement, the band have shared a new single and video, ‘Ice Cream,’ which captures the aggression, urgency, and ethos of the band. Guitarist and vocalist Alex MacDonald explains that its lyrics grapple with anger, fighting burnout, and the fervor to keep going when the search for comfort comes up empty.

At the center of the song’s inspiration was an absurd moment of clarity. “A five-year-old was running a toy ice cream shop,” MacDonald recalls. “I handed over fake money, asked for chocolate, and got vanilla. I pointed out that paying customers should get to choose their order. The kid was unmoved and said: ‘You get what you get, and don’t get upset.’ I tried to teach her about capitalism but she didn’t seem to care. She was using this mantra to placate me and it cracked me up. But it did stick with me, and I used it to get through some annoying situations of my own.”

The accompanying video bites back: an automated robot-run ice cream truck denies the crew the single cone they can afford, and it sparks a revolt. They steal the truck, drive through the streets of LA, land in a parking lot and hand out all the ice cream for free.

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