Mamalarky have returned with new single “Anhedonia,” the track is off their recently announced forthcoming album, Hex Key, available April 11th via Epitaph Records. “Anhedonia,” follows lead single “#1 Best of All Time.” The band kick off their tour with Hinds on March 21st in Los Angeles with a show at the Echoplex.

“”Anhedonia’ is a song about feeling god awful. I was going through a really deep depression and not knowing what to do other than isolate myself from everyone,” Livvy Bennet explains. “I didn’t want to put this song out because of how much I associate it with pain and getting completely stuck in it. I’m glad it’s on the record now, though. The most defining times come after being at the bottom of the pit, every day passing the same. At some point you look up and anhedonia has gone and you’re more hopeful than before.”

While working and reworking the songs on Hex Key, the bandmates would often go on an intense hike near Bennett’s home. “We would be getting our heart rate up while we figured out the details of the record,” Bennett says. “I would be like, ‘I think we need to re-record the guitar. And the chorus needs to have some sort of lift happening.’ And then, once we would get up to the top of the mountain, we would see this really beautiful pond. It was somehow always reassuring.” The songs on Hex Key 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
Hex Key
Tracklisting
Epitaph Records

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

Mamalarky Tour Dates:

3/21 – The Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA *
3/22 – SLO Brew – San Luis Obispo, CA *
3/23 – The New Paris – Oakland, CA *
3/27 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA *
3/28 – Wise Hall – Vancouver, BC *
3/29 – Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR *
3/30 – Treefort Fest – Boise, ID *
4/1 – Meow Wolf – Santa Fe, NM *
4/3 – Resonant Head – Oklahoma City, OK *
4/4 – Rubber Gloves – Denton, TX *
4/5 – Hotel Vegas – Austin, TX *
4/8 – The Underground – Mesa. AZ *
4/9 – Music Box – San Diego, CA *
4/26 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA
4/28 – Mahall’s – Lakewood, Oh
4/30 – Schubas Tavern – Chicago, IL
5/1 – The Bishop – Bloomington, IN
5/2 – Ace of Cups – Columbus, OH
5/3 – The Government Center – Pittsburgh, PA
5/4 – Static Age Records – Asheville, NC
5/6 – Kings – Raleigh, NC
5/8 – Comet Ping Pong – Washington, DC
5/9 – Foto Club – Philadelphia, PA
5/10 – Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY
5/13 – The Rockwell – Somerville, MA

* w/ Hinds

Pre-order Hex Key by Mamalarky HERE