Fat Wreck Chords’ Sundowner has debuted a new single off his forthcoming album, entitled “Cemetery West.”

Arriving online via AV Club over the last day, the latest song from Sundowner offers a folk-driven rock track about evading the darkness that follows us in life. It plays sort of like a traveling song, only with lyrics focused squarely on the past and the demons that can sometimes follow us for years. While that may sound like a bit of a downer, it’s actually quite upbeat, and should go a long way toward winning over new listeners for the group. You can stream the song below.

Commenting on the song, Sundowner offered:

“I was born in Chicago. The kind of place that lives in your blood and bones. And I did grow up, like the song says, in a northside neighborhood just west of a cemetery. [Daniel] Burnham is buried there. So “Cemetery West” is a song of origins, of half-truths, of histories that live with us as we create new ones. It’s about an unalterable past and uncertain future, about choosing to find a way forward with the darkness on your heels. Maybe, more simply, it’s about a trigger that finally clicks over after so many years of your index finger poised against it.”

Sundowner’s new album, Neon Fiction, hits stores September 3. Comment below and let us know your thoughts on the new material.

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