After confirming its existence back in April, The Wonder Years have officially announced their seventh album, The Hum Goes On Forever, due September 2 via Hopeless Records. The album includes recent singles "Oldest Daughter" and "Summer Clothes," and along with the announcement comes third single "Wyatt's Song (Your Name)." It's a soaring, anthemic song that finds the band's unique emo/alt-rock/pop punk mix sounding as genre-blurring and distinct as ever, and it's another very promising taste of this LP. (It also includes a lyrical nod to "God Only Knows.") This album is the band's first since vocalist Dan Campbell became a father, and this new song was written for his oldest son, Wyatt. Dan says:
It’s about the polarizing forces of love and anxiety that come with being a new parent—simultaneously being so overjoyed that they’re here, about the miraculous nature of their existence, but afraid of all the ways you could fail them. It’s about raising children in a world that feels like it’s actively ending and how to make them feel safe and cared for despite that. It tries to breathe in the small, beautiful moments and exhale all of the invasive thoughts of despair.