“Tap Twice” and “Traffic!” and “Cool Dry Place” have us highly anticipating Katy Kirby’s debut album, also titled Cool Dry Place. It’s out next month, and today the Nashville singer-songwriter is sharing a fourth advanced track, a punchy yet casually unfolding pop-rock track called “Juniper.” The lyrics are a bit darker than the easygoing wistful vibe might suggest: “You don’t need a reprimand to know/ Just when a vengeful god will strike her blow/ Bad weather warning on the radio/ Get in before they lock the doors/ You’re on your own.”

Here’s a statement from Kirby about the track:

This is a song about motherhood, mostly. It sometimes seems like there’s far more material written on how dads can be terrifying and awful, or everyone is just less surprised about it. I’m uncommonly open and close with my mom, (and she’s asked several times if it’s about her — if you’re reading this Lisa, I swear, it’s not!!), but I was trying to work out how many distinct ways that sort of dynamic can uniquely harm. I wound up thinking a lot about vacancy, sort of how abandonment can happen even if someone technically sticks around. I heard Greta Gerwig say in an interview about Ladybird that “nobody doesn’t have a complicated relationship with their mother.” That feels pretty reasonable to me as far as super-broad statements go, and is maybe (probably) part of what scares me to death about raising a kid.

Listen below.

Cool Dry Place is out 2/19 on Keeled Scales.