With “Growing Underground”,  Team Dresch has shared another track and video from Furthermore, which is their first album in 30 years that will be out on September 18, through Jealous Butcher Records. Following the previous single, “One Song”, the ditty is an anthemic call to continued resistance, a call to collective, intersectional values and a vision for a future free of hegemonic, hateful systems. The track is accompanied by a stunning shadow puppet video filled with references to meaningful historical places and things, created by Jason Thibodeaux (Coraline, ParaNorman), Cynthia Star (Coraline, ParaNorman), Ponyboy and Team Dresch’s own Kaia Wilson.

As a whole, the song is amazing by how it begins with a moody vibe and spellbinding bass line before transforming into a fiery distorted scream of sound, which dissolves and then builds to the tsunami-like force of the chorus. The song’s final crescendo is a whirlwind of frenzied, chaotic guitars, heartbeat drums, grounding bass and plaintively delivered vocals.

“Boiled down to its core, ‘Growing Underground’ imagines a future rooted not in fear, but in love,” Team Dresch explain. “It’s a place of germination. It’s the root system. The mycelial network. The place where growth begins long before anyone above the surface realizes it’s happening. The music mirrors the song’s message: the Right can try to erase us, but it will never extinguish the people who believe in the inviolability of all life and our planet. The closing images become increasingly expansive: ‘We become the ocean / We become trees’ – these aren’t simply symbols of survival, they’re ecosystems. Trees provide shelter. Oceans sustain life. The song imagines shared communities becoming the very thing that nutures future life. Love is embodied through chosen families, interconnection, and the networks that have always sustained one another.”