Coma Girls‘ have shared their new single “Candles,” a slow-burning folk-rocker about the guilt and shame that often comes with addiction. The outro opens up into a sheet of distorted guitars, as Spino repeats an aching mantra over and over: “Leave your candles lit / My pain keeps burning on and on and on.”

Spino’s new Coma Girls album – Crystal Pistol, out Oct. 13 via Baby Robot Records, – finds him gently settled into a sweet spot between two of his major influences: Emotionally raw folk songs and spindly, fuzzed out garage rock. After recording a handful of releases straight to analog tape with Thee Oh Sees keyboardist Tomas Dolas, Spino met his current collaborator, Christian Paul Philippi, who produced 2022’s No Umbrella For Star Flower and returned to the same role for Crystal Pistol.

“No Umbrella was a COVID record that I made with some friends. I got sober last year and wanted to do this new one by myself, but with Christian’s help because we work really quickly and efficiently together,” Spino said. “I wanted to do something that felt a little more clear-headed but still felt ambitious and experimental.”

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