Chicago’s Beach Bunny are back with a new single titled “Vertigo,” their first new release since 2022’s Emotional Creature.
An upbeat, pop-punkish tune, “Vertigo” lays the band’s tight rhythm section beneath a commanding vocal line from Lili Trifilio, who described the single as “a bop about self sabotage, jealousy, and generally spiraling (classic).”
Touching on the song’s origins, Trifilio explained that she’s “on a journey of self-awareness,” and, mirroring the song’s airport-themed lyrics, she first thought of the melody on a flight. “I wrote this on an airplane in my head and tried to demo it in the bathroom very sneakily,” she said. “But airplane bathrooms are super loud, so as to not forget how it went, since the audio was trash, I sang it in my head for the entire duration of a four-hour flight.”
The single arrives as Beach Bunny is finishing up their tour dates opening for Melanie Martinez, which still has upcoming stops in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California. After that, they’ll play a show in Missouri with The Greeting Committee in August, and in September they’ll return to Chicago for a set at Riot Fest 2024.