Emo-rockers Home is Where are back with a brand new LP. Hunting Season, out May 23 via Wax Bodega, is the Florida four-piece's follow-up to 2023's The Whaler, and with it comes the first single, "migration patterns".

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The band – made up of Bea MacDonald (vocals, multi-instrumentalist), Tilley Komorny (guitar, vocals), Connor O’Brien (bass), and Josiah Gardella (drums) – tackled a bit of a strange line of thought for the new record. According to the press notes, MacDonald wanted to write "the great American song," but her track in doing so is particularly specific:

"'Hunting Season' has 13 of these, each one detailing the dying thoughts of an Elvis impersonator consumed by fumes and flames in a car wreck. To be clear, these songs are not all sung from the perspective of the same dying Elvis impersonator, but from 13 different Elvis impersonators, all dying in a thirteen-car pileup. An unlucky number of imitation Elvises, each grasping at their final scraps of life as they all burn—stuck in separate cars, but together in wreckage and in death. What could be more American than that?"

Hunting Season was recorded in just three days. Kormony said it's "the hardest we've ever worked on a record," and the work on the album followed a high-travel era of the band's career, between various tours (with the likes of Foxing and Greet Death), as well as personal moves (MacDonald and Kormony both "fled" Florida, due to the ever-increasing hostility toward the trans community).

In addition to the record, the group is headlining Washington DC’s Liberation Weekend Festival at the Black Cat on May 30th, which is a trans rights festival, the proceeds of which will be donated to Gender Liberation Movement. They are also debuting a new line of camo hats, and will donate $1 from each hat sale to the Campaign for Southern Equality.

Hunting Season is out May 23. Preorder here. Full tracklist below:

1. Reptile house
2. Migration patterns
3. Artificial grass
4. Black metal Mormon
5. Stand-up special
6. Bike week
7. Everyone won the lotto
8. Shenandoah
9. Milk & diesel
10. Mechanical bull
11. The wolf man
12. Roll tide
13. Drive-by mooning