The singles from this upcoming Martha album are so good. “Beat, Perpetual,” title track “Please Don’t Take Me Back,” and the Futureheads collab “Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?” find the poppy UK punks in top form. So does today’s new offering “Hope Gets Harder,” a spry and spunky straight-ahead rocker with hooks and harmonies to spare.

Martha shared an impassioned statement about the song’s subject matter:

“Hope Gets Harder” is a song about England: a uniquely fucking terrible idea. A place governed by the most absurdly mediocre people in history. Selfish, rich, thick, malevolent ghouls propped up by a bootlicking, self-congratulating, stenographic, client-journalist news media that puts North Korea to shame. England is a grey, damp artifice, vibrating to a quasi-fascist background hum, where the majority live miserable hopeless lives, so that a tiny minority can live in extravagant luxury. As we lurch violently from one crisis to the next, it feels like the light of any hope for the future is slowly dying. But we have to try and find hope in one another, and together we have to fight like hell for a more socially and ecologically just world. No fate but what we make for ourselves. Abolish england. Fuck the king.

In other words, this is a song about hard times, designed to give you a burst of energy in the midst of struggle. Check it out below.

Please Don’t Take Me Back is out 10/28 on Dirtnap in the US and Specialist Subject in the UK.