Kevin Bronson on June 3rd, 2022

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Trapdoor Social is known for both their buoyant indie anthems and their climate change activism — since their formation a decade ago, the band has released an album, three EPs and a slew of singles; infiltrated the TV, film and commercial worlds with their music and staged a host of solar-powered concerts, including the Sunstock Solar Festival.

Helmed by Skylar Funk (currently backed by guitarist Louie Gonzalez, drummer Grant Dickerson and producer Curt Schneider), the band released a new EP, “Pieces of Us,” in March and since pre-pandemic times has been rolling out singles for their second full-length. (In the meantime, Funk, who speaks four languages, has been a bundle of energy on social media sharing video clips.)

Last summer found Trapdoor Social on tour across the pond with legendary new wavers the B-52s. There, Trapdoor hatched the new song “Prophit.” “It called for Fred Schneider’s voice,” Funk says, “and the collab was born.”

Released today, the playfully caustic “Prophit” is another long line of Trapdoor Social songs that parries with social and political issues. Funk writes that the song is “the totally-believable $tory of a definitely-legit religiou$ prophit who, most certainly by accident, found hi$ new line of work to be quite prophitable.”

||| Stream: “Prophit”

||| Also: Stream the “Pieces of Us” EP

||| Previously: “All,” “Whispers,” “The Lie,” “Hold Me Down,” “Never Stop Listening,” “Sunshine,” Interview: Sunstock Solar Festival