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Cuffed Up (Photo by Noah Mentis)

Fasten your seat belts: L.A. indie-rockers Cuffed Up return today with the new single “Canaries,” a post-punk scorcher that arrives with the news that the quartet has signed with Toronto-based Royal Mountain Records (home to Alvvays, Mac DeMarco, METZ, Orville Peck, U.S. Girls, PUP and Girlpuppy, among others).

Sapphire Jewell and Ralph Torrefranca trade speak-sung verses on the new track, while the rhythm section of Joe Liptock and Vic Ordonez make it sound like a moral imperative to pay attention. The tune — made with producer Brad Wood (Touché Amoré, Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair) — is their first original since Cuffed Up dropped their self-titled debut EP right before the pandemic hit.

“‘Canaries’ is about going down a path that you know is wrong, yet you keep going because some form of shame is driving you,” the band says. “Sometimes, we become numb to the burdens we carry. “Carrying the weight of stones/with pins to his bones” reflects that and the need to be vulnerable with yourself and not accept fate as is.”

Also announced today: Cuffed Up will tour supporting Welsh rockers the Joy Formidable, including a Nov. 30 date at the Roxy.

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||| Live: Cuffed Up open for The Joy Formidable on Nov. 30 at the Roxy. Tickets on sale Friday.

||| Previously: “Politicians in My Eyes,” “Danger, Danger,” “French Exit,” “Mother/Father”