Today, Zürich, Switzerland-based group District Five share their new track “Somewhere In Between,” ahead of their forthcoming album, GLUT, due May 29 via Stone Pixel Records. Listen/Watch “Somewhere In Between” here and presave GLUT here.

“Somewhere In Between” is a song about transitional states. With its alternating time signatures, art pop plucky guitars, and haunting long-lined vocal melody, the track is held together and driven by a post-punk-ish drum pattern. It all builds to a distorted, dense, echoing bridge to quite literally help usher you through the transitions they aim to convey.

Of the track, the band explains: “The lyrics of ‘Somewhere In Between’ are based on a shorter poem; it asks the question of what remains after everything has collapsed after events of excess – a song about memory, ashes, transitional states, which comes in a long suite-like form.”

The accompanying video gives you a glimpse into the rehearsal rooms in which the band has been meeting for over a decade, and the constant motion of their trajectory and growth.

Watch “Somewhere In Between” here.

Recent singles follow similar lines of moral questioning: “Push” ft. Grammy-nominated poet Saul Williams speaks out against unchecked imperialism, the genocide in Palestine, and the allure of escapist resignation; a space-rock dread and an almost Nick Drake-like vocal melody grasps at redemption through vice. “Place Your Bet,” sets the modern deluge of gambling apps and financialized prediction markets to a swirl of 7/4 shuffle and proggy dread.

Both aesthetically daring and politically astute, District Five’s music is wildly expansive and hard to pin down. KEXP has commended District Five’s “adventurous art-rock with psych and jazz undercurrents;” the group veers from texturally modern experimental jazz (think Maruja or SML) to prickly but anthemic space-rock (somewhere between The Verve and Clinic) to scabrous but math-y post-punk noise (like black midi or Lightning Bolt), all while weaving in and out of haunting, often uncomplicated, melodic passages.

District Five is Paul Amereller (drums, percussion), Tapiwa Svosve (vocals, synth, sax), Vojko Huter (vocals, guitar, synth), and Xaver Rüegg (bass). For ten years, the four friends have been experimenting with their sound language in practice rooms, finding ways to illuminate the minutia of their personal relationships, as well as the greater human experience. Much like their 2024 album, Come Closer, “Push” and the music to come captures the immediacy of their live sound — with minimal cuts and overdubs.

The band gives the friends a sense of agency that they’re using to reflect on and shape the trajectory of the lives and the lives of those they reach with their distinct sound.