Hurry, the Philadelphia power-pop project led by Matt Scottoline, have announced their new album Zoned Out, due July 10 via Lame-O Records. It's the band's first full-length since 2023's Don't Look Back, and by the sound of the just-released title track, the wait paid off. The song is four and a half minutes of shimmering jangle guitar, stacked harmonies, and the kind of wistful melodic sense that made this band a quiet staple of the Philly indie scene.
The album was recorded at The Metal Shop in Philadelphia and engineered by Ian Farmer, best known as the bassist of Modern Baseball and Slaughter Beach, Dog. Farmer also handled mastering and contributed synth and Mellotron to the sessions, while Neil Strauch mixed the record. It's a production pedigree that maps neatly onto Hurry's sound: melodic, warm, and rooted in that particular strain of Northeast indie rock where power-pop, college rock, and Midwest emo all bleed into each other.
The guest list is a nice bonus, too. Former Teenage Fanclub bassist Gerard Love appears on the track "Moving After You," which is exactly the kind of collaboration that makes sense when you hear how deeply Hurry's guitar tone borrows from that Glasgow jangle-pop lineage.
Scottoline described the album's emotional core in a statement: "I tend to disassociate. I zone out and sort of crawl into my own head. Zoned Out comes from a place of me staring down roads, specifically around my partner and I deciding to have a child and how fucking scary that is. It was me searching for reassurance that I would never find and trying my best to avoid a tendency to unplug instead of facing heavy life stuff."
That vulnerability runs through the title track. "Zoned Out" opens with a clean guitar figure that quickly thickens into a bed of layered jangle, Scottoline's voice sitting right in the pocket where earnest meets detached. The lead guitar work is the real star here, weaving melodic lines around the vocal harmonies in a way that recalls the best moments of Don't Look Back. As Scottoline put it: "When I wrote this song I was in a place where I needed to face some fears around taking next steps in a relationship and committing to a path in life that felt heavy and existential at the time. Should I start my own family? Will it fundamentally change everything about my life and who I am? Will I still be able to create and be an artist?"
Big questions wrapped in bright guitars. That's been Hurry's thing since the beginning, and Zoned Out sounds like they're leaning into it harder than ever.
The full lineup on the record features Scottoline on vocals, guitar, and synthesizer, Rob DeCarolis on drums and auxiliary percussion, Joe DeCarolis on bass, and Justin Fox on guitar and Rhodes. It's a five-piece operation now, with Farmer's studio contributions rounding out the sound.
Zoned Out Tracklist
1. All Sunk In
2. Zoned Out
3. Moving After You (Feat. Gerard Love)
4. The Dumbest Person You've Ever Seen
5. Just Fine
6. Untitled
7. Complications
8. Oh Yeah
9. Laughing In Reverse
10. Somewhere (kind of) Old
Zoned Out is available for pre-order now on Bandcamp. The album drops July 10 on Lame-O Records.