Anxious are currently on tour a massive North America supporting their label mates Citizen alongside Hotline TNT, Rocket, and Cryogeyser, and today they're back with a fittingly huge new single "Secret Weapon".

"Secret Weapon" follows last month's single "Don't Move" and the two tracks represent the first new music from Anxious since the release of their acclaimed sophomore album, Bambi (which drew attention from the likes of Pitchfork, Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, Uproxx, and many more). "Secret Weapon" offers a dose of heavy, blown-out alternative rock, putting a riffy spin on the ambitious widescreen songwriting that Anxious excel at.

Guitarist/co-vocalist Dante Melucci discussed the new song, saying: "The ‘Secret Weapon’ is the business of music, the weaponisation of the stats and current fads to decide who you are as an artist, and who you should strive to be. I’m seeing artists with this objectivity in their style, their songs, that to me just comes across as desperate; I don’t believe that something beautiful can be created in a lab."

Vocalist Grady Allen discussed "Don't Move", saying:

"This song is about a relationship that defined my early twenties falling apart - then trying and failing to rebuild it. It’s about disengaging with reality in hopes of reclaiming the bond you’ve lost with someone, but never feeling truly close in the process. 'Don’t Move' is about knowing that feeling, but trying to ignore it in the hope that things will change.

This song was the first song from a group of tracks I started writing at the end of last summer. There were no expectations for a record, or for a cohesive idea of what that would mean - it just felt like there was a lot of space for 'let's just put together whatever comes naturally and see what happens.' The bridge for this song came first and I was trying to channel some of the atmospheric building action that happens a lot on the B-side of Jimmy Eat World's Clarity. I was also super inspired by Armlock, probably my favorite new band of the last several years. Their layered acoustic guitars and vocals was something I was trying to pull off on the bridge."