[Cover photo courtesy of Hayley and the Crushers]

Melodic Punk band Hayley and the Crushers have released a new EP, Unsubscribe from the Underground. It’s a multi-genre project and the band are proud of that.

Frontwoman/guitarist Hayley Cain says:

We look at genres a little in the same way as we look at hot sauces. Our fridge is full of them, and they’re all seeing some action. The genres don’t walk a straight line. We blend in a little country vibe there. It’s certainly punk rock, done our way. We are known to sprinkle in a bit of surf sound. Sprinkle in some ‘80s pop.  We like to play. We like to feel like we can go wild and have fun. We did this on the new EP.

The single touting freedom of choice, “Let Go”, is out now, alongside a video.

Cain says that it comes from a place of burnout and media saturation:

Overwhelm with the constant ping of email, text, social media, apps. One can never truly hear their own thoughts, conversations don’t officially ‘end,’ they just live online, lingering forever until someone dies (and even then, where do our text chains go? [These days…] we observe others’ lives, consume an endless, disposable ocean of content and are haunted by comparing our own bloopers to everyone else’s supposed highlight reels. Our smartphone use is a lot like cigarette smoking in old 1950s movies. Creepily omnipresent! One day we’ll look back in shock.

She adds about the video:

In the ‘Let Go’ music video, I am running through the overgrown alleyways of my Detroit neighborhood. Our friend Alex is riding my e-bike and [bassist] Dr. Cain ESQ filming off the back. Running is a powerful visual, but usually the way I disconnect IRL looks like going for a walk, picking up a graphic novel, hopping on a bike, doing some yoga in the park. I hope the listener feels seen and heard. Sometimes we forget that we can actually let go.