End Your Week With Stef Chura’s Beautifully Melancholic Single “Sour Honey”

Detroit-native indie rocker and Paste Best of What’s Next pick Stef Chura released on Friday the b-side from her forthcoming 7”, set to drop as a Record Store Day release on April 21. The song, titled “Sour Honey,” follows the double-sided vinyl’s previous release, a-side “Degrees.” Check out that first track’s lyric video below.

“Degrees” b/w “Sour Honey” was produced by Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo. The duo started recording music after running into each other during a show, per Stereogum. Chura recalled her first encounter with Toledo in a statement:

I met Will Toledo in 2016 when we did some touring together with Car Seat Headrest. We chatted at the Empty Bottle in Chicago at our first show and he told me that he found my music on Tumblr via an article that compared us to each other. He invited us on a couple of tours that year before Messes was out and before we had a label or booking agent or release plans or any “stuff.” In May of 2017 we ran into each other again at the Empty Bottle. Will was mixing Twin Fantasy and came out to our gig there with the engineer he’d been working with. He invited us to the studio to check out the record the next day. When we stopped by Will had finished mixing early and asked us if we had anything going on recording-wise. I said I have a couple of songs that got cut from Messes I want to record for a 7-inch and he was like “Cool, wanna record them right now? I’ll play bass.