“Burning Out” arrives as the band’s first music since their 2024 LP No Obligation,
and according to vocalist-guitarist Lucia de la Garza, it was shaped by
the peculiar, in-between feeling of finishing high school while
watching friends prepare to leave. “I was feeling very surrounded by
change,” she says. “We went on a week-long writing retreat in Palm
Springs less than a month after graduation, and that’s where we wrote
this song about feeling like the world is passing you by.”
The
track itself pushes their boppy, fun blend of punk, power pop, and garage rock into
slightly more polished territory.
The video, shot by Castiel, captures the band in characteristically
direct, low-lit performance mode. Check it out below.
The Linda Lindas – de la
Garza, her sister Mila de la Garza, cousin Eloise Wong, and Bela
Salazar – first formed in 2018 through the Girlschool LA all-ages scene, playing Chinatown matinees alongside old-school LA punks
before going on to open for Bikini Kill, Green Day, and Paramore. A
viral performance of “Racist, Sexist, Boy” at the LA Public Library in
2021 brought wider attention, and they went on to release two albums for Epitaph: Growing Up (2022) and No Obligation (2024).
While
the new label deal is something of a gear shift, the group’s ethos
remains the same: all four members write and take lead vocals, and the
songs continue to juggle personal growing pains. The Bleachers shows begin in
September, with dates in Berkeley, Tacoma, and Bend, alongside an
October appearance at Tom Morello’s Power To The People Festival in
Maryland.
