Beach Fossils Share "This Year," Lead Single from New Album Somersault

A central line from Beach Fossils’ charmingly elegiac new single “This Year” is Dustin Payseur exhaling, “No … I won’t be there … in time.” Just seven words repeated over a somber violin part and chiming guitars, nothing more.

But, as with a lot of Beach Fossils’ work, it’s a striking case of less being more. The video for the lead single from their forthcoming third LP Somersault is simply a banner advertising the record being dragged across the screen. It’s low-key and low-stakes and low-budget for certain, but it’s also an endearing move in a bit of a mundane environment. Whatever glumness might be hanging around can be tempered by a bit of goofiness.

Somersault drops June 2 via Bayonet Records and is available for preorder here or here. You can check out the video for “This Year” above and Paste Cloud audio from a 2010 Daytrotter session from the group below, plus the new album’s tracklist and cover art.

Beach Fossils Share “This Year,” Lead Single from New Album Somersault