Superchunk will release a new album titled "Wild Loneliness"  on Feb 25 through Merge Records.

Wild Loneliness, recorded at home in North Carolina during lockdown and mixed by Wally Gagel (Here’s Where the Strings Come In), is out February 25 worldwide.

“Endless Summer,” featuring the harmonies of Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley, is the first single from the album and is out today. A limited-edition 7-inch single on yellow vinyl is shipping from the Merge warehouse now, and participating independent record shops will carry an exclusive translucent lime green edition starting Friday. The 7-inch contains a cover of The Glands’ “When I Laugh” (feat. William Tyler on guitar) as the B-side. Listen to “Endless Summer” alongside the lyric video below.

Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan on the new track:

“Endless Summer” was written on New Year’s Day 2020 which was unseasonably warm here in North Carolina. Of course, by the time we recorded it, “endless summer” had other meanings… The 7” sleeve features Roe Ethridge’s beautiful photos of broken beach umbrellas which capture the vibe of the song perfectly.

In addition to McGinley and Blake, Wild Loneliness features guest spots from Sharon Van Etten, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Wye Oak’s Andy Stack, Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, Owen Pallett, Kelly Pratt, and Franklin Bruno. We gave an advance listen of the new album to poet and Superchunk fan Maggie Smith; here’s what she wrote:

Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious. It’s a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and acoustic, highs and lows, and I love it all. On Wild Loneliness I hear echoes of Come Pick Me Up, Here’s to Shutting Up, and Majesty Shredding. After the (ahem, completely justifiable) anger of What a Time to Be Alive, this new record is less about what we’ve lost in these harrowing times and more about what we have to be thankful for.