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Feb 17, 2026 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Adrienne Ruberti

Earlier this year, indie singer/songwriter John Andrews shared “Something To Be Said,” his latest single under the moniker John Andrews & The Yawns. Along with the track, Andrews also shared news of the band’s fifth full-length album, Streetsweeper, due out on April 3rd via Earth Libraries. The record follows his 2021 album, Cookbook, and his 2023 album, Love for the Underdog, both of which traced Andrews’ songwriting with fuzzy lo-fi aesthetics and a warm ‘70s tinge.

Streetsweeper operates from a similarly tranquil and observational mode, in much the same vein as records from singer/songwriters like Andy Shauf. After writing the songs tucked away in his Brooklyn home, Andrews recorded the album in Los Angeles with Luke Temple alongside his longtime bandmates in both The Yawns and indie rock outfit Cut Worms一drummer Noah Bond and bassist Kevin Louis Lareau.

Today, the band is back with another new single, “Goodbye Dirty Snow,” premiering with Under the Radar.

In the dreary depths of winter, “Goodbye Dirty Snow” offers a much-needed hint of warmth. Andrews’ vocals come through in a dreamy haze as he croons atop feathered drum work, breezy bass and guitar lines, and a woozy bed of keys. It is slight, unassuming, and intentionally lo-fi, but that intimate scale also gives the track an instant charm. Meanwhile, Andrews’ lyrics meditate on impermanence, tracing how both the good and bad of life will eventually give way. The only constant is change. “Goodbye dirty snow / It comes, and then it goes / What’s here today may not be here tomorrow / Days going to burn away / Like ash in an ashtray / Happiness turns to bittersweet sorrow / But there’s no way to know on your own / There’s no way to know on your own.”

Andrews says of the track, “This song is actually a demo I recorded with the built in microphone on my laptop. I play everything. We tried to re-track it at Luke Temple’s studio but I felt like the demo had a special quality that was impossible to re-capture. Luke pulled me aside and told me the demo sounds awesome & he encouraged me to just use it on the album, so I did. Realistically I’d say 90% of the music I actually enjoy and listen to is lo-fi and sounds like shit, so it wasn’t really a hard pitch. I originally wrote it back in 2015, the first week I moved to New Hampshire, and was feeling inspired. I ended up shelving it for 10 years. I wrote completely new lyrics for it last winter and reworked a little bit of the chord progression and song structure. I was listening to a lot of David Westlake’s “Play Dusty For Me,” so the instrumental arrangement was probably subconsciously inspired by that. Emily Moales sings harmonies recorded by Kevin Basko at Historic NJ. “

Check out the song below. Streetsweeper is out on April 3rd via Earth Libraries.