Stuck announce new album, Optimizer

Chicago post-hardcore trio Stuck have announced a new album. On March 27 they’ll release Optimizer via Exploding in Sound. Today they’ve shared the new single “Instakill.” Hear it below. They’ve also lined up some spring tour dates—check those out below.

Guitarist/vocalist Greg Obis said about the new song in a statement, “I found myself in a bad way in 2024. Reeling with financial stress and a deep sense of precarity with my career, I was desperate for answers. This led me down a deep hole of online self-help huckster gurus. Charitably, I think that many of these people mean well and a few genuinely have good advice. But even the best of them are trying to prey on your insecurities and circumstances in order to sell you a course or a health supplement, which I think is both dark and funny. ‘Instakill’ uses these huckster gurus to explore the futility of constant self-optimization. Is it possible to change who you are?”

Stuck Optimizer tracklist:

1. Totally Vexed
2. Instakill
3. Sicko
4. Deadlift
5. Less Is More
6. Fire, Man
7. Net Negative
8. It Isn’t
9. Punchline
10. GG

Stuck tour dates:

Fri. Apr. 3 – Detroit, MI @ Outer Limits
Sat. Apr. 4 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
Sun. Apr. 5 – Montreal, QC @ L’Esco
Tue. Apr. 7 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s
Wed. Apr. 8 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
Thu. Apr. 9 – Boston, MA @ Deep Cuts
Sat. Apr. 11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse on Watts – Cambridge Hall
Sun. Apr. 12 – Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
Fri. Apr. 24 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village