A few months ago, Mal Blum put out “Things Still Left To Say,” their first new song since 2015’s You Look A Lot Like Me. Now they’re back with a whole new album, Pity Boy, that’s due out in July.

“Honestly, I think it was just, like, the next chapter of my therapy session,” Blum said in a press release about the album. “The last record was like, ‘Oh, okay, for the first time I’ve admitted to myself that I am struggling’ But after that, you have to take all that self-examination to the next step, which is: ‘Why do I do the things I do? What are these cycles in my life that are or are not helping me?’ That’s the place that I was in when I wrote almost all of these songs.”

Today, Blum is sharing “I Don’t Want To,” a song about rebelling against the things that society says you’re supposed to do, like pay your bills on time and being more honest and get your act together. There’s a sense that Blum recognizes that we all have to grow up sometime, but its chorus is a rousing pushback nevertheless: “I don’t want to, so I won’t,” Blum sings. “I don’t want to, I don’t need to, or I’m not going to, at least right now.”

Listen below.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Things Still Left To Say”
02 “Splinter”
03 “See Me”
04 “Odds”
05 “It’s Not My Job”
06 “Black Coffee”
07 “I Don’t Want To”
08 “Did You Get What You Wanted”
09 “Salt Flats”
10 “Well Fuck”
11 “Gotta Go”
12 “Maybe I’ll Wait”

TOUR DATES:
07/19 New York, NY @ Rough Trade
07/20 Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
07/21 Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
07/22 Boston, MA @ Great Scott
07/23 New Haven, CT @ State House
07/24 Portland, ME @ The Apohadion Theater

Pity Boy is out 7/12 via Don Giovanni Records.