The good news is: there was a brand new Royal Canoe song released this week. The bad news is: we'll have to wait five months for more. "RAYZ" is the first single off Waver, due out at the end of next January, the band's first album on Paper Bag Records.

"RAYZ" is a full of lazy, end-of-summer vibes and it's everything you'd want from a new Royal Canoe song. The band says it's "about feeling a dark cloud hovering above and needing to reach up to see past it. You can’t help but desperately clamour for the ladder, but what are you leaving behind? There are so many forces pulling you this way and that: Be more successful, always say the right thing, get fit, make goals, achieve them flawlessly, be better in every possible way. But the higher you reach, the harder it is to stay grounded to yourself and those around you. In the chaos all you want is some clarity.”