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Feb 20, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Mamalarky have announced a new album, Hex Key, and shared a new song from it, “#1 Best of All Time,” via a music video. Hex Key is due out April 11 via Epitaph, their first for the label. Check out the new single below, followed by the album details and the band’s upcoming tour dates opening for Hinds.

Mamalarky is Livvy Bennett, Noor Khan, Michael Hunter, and Dylan Hill.

Bennett had this to say about the new single in a press release: “Through a lot of games of UNO I’ve discovered I’m actually a pretty competitive person. And somehow, the feeling of losing has become highly motivating to me. I always feel like I’m competing against myself, trying to best my last attempt at whatever I’ve set out to do. Like, you probably can’t be the best of all time, but you’ll always be the best you of all time–no one can dispute that. I wanted to write something that felt powerful but funny, too, like laughing in the face of doubt. Cause betting on yourself even when you feel like a losing horse pays off in big ways! If you can make yourself feel like you’re winning right at the moment of failure and only measure yourself against your own barometers, you’re gonna be a lot happier. When we recorded this, we asked Dylan to just play something ‘crazy’ on the drums and worked backwards from there. He powered through this insane performance and the song came together autonomously from there.”

The band recorded the album in their Los Angeles home studio. Of their recording process, Bennett says: “It’s never ‘kick your feet up, let’s see what happens. We’re always staring each other deeply in the eyes saying ‘Let’s make this next take incredible.’ We never settle.”

Of the themes on the new album, Bennett adds: “A lot of this record is about reconciling with rage, finding a way to create something useful with it. You can’t really talk yourself out of a feeling, but there’s always a good place to put them.”

Previously the band shared the album’s first two singles: “Nothing Lasts Forever” and “Feels So Wrong.” Also listen to them both below.

Hex Key follows 2022’s Pocket Fantasy and 2021’s self-titled debut LP, both released via Fire Talk. Check out our review of Mamalarky here.

Hex Key Tracklist:

1. Broken Bones
2. Won’t Give Up
3. The Quiet
4. Hex Key
5. Anhedonia
6. #1 Best of All Time
7. Take Me
8. MF
9. Blow Up
10. Blush
11. Nothing Lasts Forever
12. Feels So Wrong
13. Here’s Everything

Mamalarky Tour Dates:

3/21 - The Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA *
3/22 - SLO Brew - San Luis Obispo, CA *
3/23 - The New Paris - Oakland, CA *
3/27 - Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA *
3/28 - Wise Hall - Vancouver, BC *
3/29 - Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR *
3/30 - Treefort Fest - Boise, ID *
4/1 - Meow Wolf - Santa Fe, NM *
4/3 - Resonant Head - Oklahoma City, OK *
4/4 - Rubber Gloves - Denton, TX *
4/5 - Hotel Vegas - Austin, TX *
4/8 - The Underground - Mesa. AZ *
4/9 - Music Box - San Diego, CA *

* w/ Hinds

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