Stream: New singles from Sophie Meiers, Goon and Launder

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Sophie Meiers (Photo by Robin Banks)

We’re going for a vibe in today’s singles roundup: Check out new songs from Sophie Meiers, Goon and Launder …

SOPHIE MEIERS, “Untangle Me”

World-weary and and bored to exhaustion by the coping mechanisms — that’s Sophie Meiers on the new single, “Untangle Me.” Meiers released “Collar” early this year after signing to Epitaph Records and has followed up with “Let Me Breathe” and “Things Will Change,” each a variation on the artist’s bedroom pop. Of the new song, the native of Durango, Colorado, says, “I was 14, living by myself, bouncing around from sketchy situation to sketchy situation. It was a symbiosis of beautiful and dark depravity, one which I both glorified and condemned. In a literal sense, ‘Untangle Me’ is a song about desperation and survival.”

GOON, “Ochre”

The follow-up to “Angelnumber 1210,” “Ochre” is the impressionistic new single from Goon and the latest from the quartet’s sophomore album “Hour of Green Evening,” out July 15. Think Spiritualized with a bad case of insomnia … and a minute-long piano outro played by Alex Fischel of Spoon. Yellow ochre is frontman Kenny Becker’s favorite color with which to paint, the press release tells us, and he says the song endeavors to capture “that feeling when you’re laying in bed wide awake at 3 a.m. and your mind is racing, so you go for a walk.” Mission accomplished.

LAUNDER, “Intake”

The follow-up to “Become,” “Unwound” and “Chipper,” “Intake” is the latest single from John Cudlip’s new double-LP as Launder, “Happening.” This one finds the middle ground between the Cure and uptempo shoegaze. “‘Intake’ carries the rhythm of someone and something new, anticipating all the best and all the worst,” Cudlip says. “These themes inspired a faster tempo and ascending chords. I let this track be indulgent in all the best ways and really leaned into all of the cleaner guitar sounds and single note guitar interplay similar to the early Launder songs. For those reasons, this track is a total joy for me and was a lot of fun to rehearse and record.” See Launder on July 29 at the Moroccan Lounge.