Kevin Bronson on May 18th, 2022

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Members of the L.A. indie all-star outfit Giant Waste of Man have at one time or another been involved in some of the heaviest music you can imagine: punk and post-punk, noise, goth, emo, indie- and math-rock and hardcore. But even without knowing that, GWOM’s new single “Summer, After” sends a chill right up the ol’ spine, finally landing in the part of the brain where the realization hits that “What you do, it matters.”

The song is the third single from Giant Waste of Man’s sophomore album, details for which are still forthcoming.

The band introduced the new project in February with the single, “Swim,” and followed up last month with the brisk indie-rocker “Jumpsuit.”

“Hope you like reverb and harsh realities,” the band says in introducing their new indie-rock hymn, a post-rock soundscape dotted with piano, strings and singer Cameron Dmytryk endeavoring to swat away malaise and apathy like flies. “Sitting here loudly judging the past / While the present is silently suffering,” he sings with an equanimous foreboding.

Maybe the latter feeling is magnified by the approaching Memorial Day weekend. Maybe we should stay vigilant. “In the summer after the holiday / Through paralyzing heat we wait / For the next heartbreaking mistake,” the song warns.

The players on this single were Dmytryk, Benjamin and Heather Heywood, Brandon Hardy, Scott Mercado and producer Robert Creek, with cello and violin by Jessica Kitzman.

Michael Feerick, frontman for U.K. rockers Amusement Parks on Fire, directs the video.

||| Watch: The video for “Summer, After”

||| Also: Stream “Jumpsuit”

||| Live: Giant Waste of Man plays a free show on June 2 at Highland Park Bowl. Info.

||| Previously: “Swim”