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Austin-based band Holy Wave will release their forthcoming album Five of Cups on Suicide Squeeze. The new record is the follow-up to their studio LP Interloper which dropped back in 2020.

To coincide with the announcement, Holy Wave have also unveiled their latest single called ‘Happier’. What you have here is a lush, sun-soaked indie handing traced with etches of late 60s garage rock, and psych-pop. There is even a killer change-up in the middle of the song that is totally entrancing. ‘Happier’ is a great way to get fans buzzing about the upcoming new album. Stream the track below.

Touching on the single, Holy Wave’s Ryan Fuson mentioned:

“We had been working on this song on and off again for a while and it all kind of came together right before we started recording this album. The song is loosely a song to Kurt Vonnegut, and a song taking some of his ideas and quotes and exploring them a little further. Mainly just a song about happiness today and maybe where it was during his time. While recording this song we knew that we wanted something unique for the outro, but we didn’t really know what it was that we were looking for, so we sent the song to Estrella and basically asked her to do whatever she thought was right and she completely exceeded our vision. It really took the song to a whole new level, some place we have never been before.”