Punk Act Single Mothers Return With New Single “Baby Bird” From Upcoming Album ‘Everything You Need’

Canadian pop-punk Single Mothers are back, sharing new single “Baby Bird” from their newly announced October album release. Everything You Need is a collection of songs written prior to the pandemic by frontman Drew Thomson and will be the band’s first full-length release since 2018’s Through A Wall.

“Baby Bird” features heavy guitar and drums, classic to the pop-punk genre. The heavy instrumentation that carries right from the start of the track through to the end. Opening with the track’s signature guitar riff, the verses quiet before the chorus comes crashing in, Thomson’s vocals at the forefront throughout.

About the upcoming album, Thomson reveals that the name Everything You Need comes from a convenience store he walked past almost every day during the pandemic. Drawn to the poetic moment he thought it represented, he says that “Everything you need is just such a beautiful name for a place that sells lottery tickets and cigarettes and Coke Zero and Oh Henry’s.” The store is now gone and the sign isn’t there, but listening to this new record, over all that the world has gone through in the last few years, had Thomson thinking about how “everything you need” can sometimes be anything at all. That, along with his sobriety that has spanned six years, informs the music found on the new album and the ever-evolving nature this band is built upon.

Single Mothers broke up in 2009 and have been playing shows ever since. Having a unique origin, that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. The band started when Thomson quit his job in 2008, walked into a bar in London, Ontario and recruited a random table of musicians. They’ve broken up a few times since but keep putting albums out and they keep playing shows. “Single Mothers isn’t anyone’s band to break up anymore, really,” says Thomson. “There have been so many members over the years, I’ve even quit and it kept going without me.”

Embracing a new chapter for the constantly changing band, Everything You Need is set for release on October 28th through Dine Alone Records.