We haven’t heard a peep of new music from Leeds uni kids-turned-Band To Watch Adult Jazz since 2014, although they did lend their abstract, adventurous musical instincts to an excellent Okay Kaya track a couple months back. Now it seems Adult Jazz themselves are back in action. They’ve been playing a new song called “Eggshell” live since last summer, and today it popped up on Spotify.

Per iTunes, the song is part of a new release called Earrings Off! coming this May. It’s seven tracks long, and three of them are pretty short, which seems like EP length to me, but their new bio seems to be framing it as an LP. Here’s singer Harry Burgess on the ideas behind the project:

The record is about masculinity. Embodiment, lust, idealization, privilege, legitimacy and limitation. It’s about acknowledging the weight, with a view to liberation from its past clout. It’s about picking your ideal body, and playing with body language to achieve authenticity. It’s about the possibility of authenticity.

Whether EP or LP, Earrings Off! certainly seems to mark a progression for the band: The electronic-oriented “Eggshell” is recognizable as the same unit that gave us Gist Is, but it’s also arguably the weirdest thing they’ve ever recorded — as if they’ve smashed their signature sprawling art-pop in a garbage compactor. Check it out below.

UPDATE: Adult Jazz have shared an official video for “Eggshell.” Directed by Sam Travis, it’s minimal, white, and creepy.

Tracklist:

01 “Earrings Off!”
02 “(Cry For Time Off)”
03 “Eggshell”
04 “(Cry For Coherence)”
05 “Pumped From Above”
06 “Ooh Ah Eh”
07 “(Cry For Home)”

Earrings Off! is out 5/20 on Tri Angle. Pre-order it here and get “Eggshell” instantly.