‘Hex Key’, the band’s Epitaph Records debut out April 11th, is an intricate, endlessly curious album full of sonic left turns and playful genre implosions.

Mamalarky, the tri-coastal indie rock quartet, announce a video for its high-octane and rambunctious lead single ‘#1 Best of All Time.’ On it band expertly pastiche sounds, time signatures, and moods together to create delightful, singular songs bursting with feeling. In making their third record, band spent entire seasons hunched over guitars and obscure synthesizers, their long hair sweeping over strings or covering concentrated eyes. The group recorded takes in between the sounds of passing ice cream trucks and yowling stray cats in their Los Angeles home studio, a tight but prolific living room. ‘Hex Key’ is a document of perseverance, of going for the gold while somehow remaining totally aware of one’s own vulnerabilities. These effervescent, swirling songs chronicle vivid desires crashing against real-life limitations but finding a way to keep burning anyway. That tension between anguish and resilience, between performed aloofness and brutal honesty, drives the music, imbues it with a compelling intensity. The songs on album are a document of that uphill scramble. Throughout the record, Mamalarky confronts their messiest emotions, turning them into high-octane musical compositions that twist furiously and blaze fluorescent. Whether or not they reach the top is almost irrelevant when the process of getting there is so beautiful to observe.

Mamalarky is Livvy Bennett, Noor Khan, Michael Hunter and Dylan Hill.

‘Hex Key’ tracklist:

1. Broken Bones
2. Won’t Give Up
3. The Quiet
4. Hex Key
5. Anhedonia
6. #1 Best Of All Time
7. Take Me
8. MF
9. Blow Up
10. Blush
11. Nothing Lasts Forever
12. Feels So Wrong
13. Here’s Everything

Photo credit: Vlonery