Southern California’s favourite genre-defying sister trio shouldn’t be enjoying coy with their new period. Following the sharp momentum of “Relationships,” HAIM has dropped their newest single, “All people’s Attempting to Determine Me Out,” and it’s much less of an informal launch, extra of an announcement: the band is leaning into the noise, each sonically and metaphorically.

Launched on April 4, the monitor opens with a muscular percussive pulse — the sort that means one thing larger is coming — earlier than unfurling right into a tightly wound guitar line that carries a rising sense of unease. This isn’t your breezy, sunlit pop-rock HAIM. It’s the sort of introspective, late-night-drive tune that pulls its weight slowly, and intentionally. “All people’s Attempting to Determine Me Out” sounds prefer it’s been simmering within the background for years, ready for the fitting time to be stated out loud.

The lyrics strike a nerve. It’s the sound of somebody exhausted from the over-analysis, from being each mythologized and misunderstood — possible a self-aware nod to the band’s public picture and the hypothesis that trails their each transfer. The stress isn’t loud, but it surely’s pointed. And HAIM doesn’t resolve it with a sugary refrain or a glittery bridge. They let it linger.

This drop follows the early success of “Relationships,” their streaming-strong comeback single that’s already turn out to be their greatest launch but, clocking over 7 million world streams in its first week and marking their highest UK chart entry since 2017’s “Need You Again.” Critics have rushed in with reward, calling “Relationships” each smooth and emotionally advanced — and now, with “All people’s Attempting to Determine Me Out,” the band appears to be constructing towards one thing deeper than only a shiny return.

There’s no official album announcement but, however with two new songs out — every revealing a unique emotional register — HAIM is clearly setting the stage for a fourth file that could be their most private, or maybe most self-aware, thus far. As if another clues had been wanted that the upcoming album would possibly lean into “single lady summer time” and the labor of affection misplaced, the caption over the Instagram video beneath reads: “that is your signal to depart him.”