Florida’s most emotionally explosive indie-punk band, Home Is Where, return today with “milk & diesel,” a dreamy, devastating track pulled from their upcoming album Hunting Season, out May 23 via Wax Bodega.
Written in the wake of frontwoman Brandon MacDonald’s grandparents being diagnosed with dementia, the song hits like a soft breeze carrying heavy memories. Paired with a surreal black-and-white video—think creature feature meets Sátántangó in a southern diner—the visuals offer a strange, tender counterpoint, featuring Elvis impersonators, haunted monsters, and one last, weird jam session before closing time.
Produced by Jack Shirley (Jeff Rosenstock, Joyce Manor), Hunting Season is wild-eyed and genre-fluid, channeling everything from Dylan and Gram Parsons to 70s country, all through Home Is Where’s sharp, unhinged lens. The album’s concept? Thirteen Elvis impersonators, each dying in a car wreck, telling their stories through song. Yes, really—and yes, it works.
The band wrote most of the album while split across the country, bonding over Neil Young, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and homesickness. Recorded in just three days, Hunting Season feels like a dust-covered highway hallucination—untamed, intimate, and totally American.
Pre-order the album now (and snag one of their new camo hats—$1 from each goes to the Campaign for Southern Equality). Catch them live at Liberation Weekend in DC on May 30. More tour dates coming soon.