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Your favorite Indianapolis-based “fake emo” band, Summerbruise, have announced their new full-length record, Infinity Guise. The news follows their official signing to SideOneDummy Records earlier this summer. It’s set for release on September 19th. Along with the news, they released a new single “VAN” featuring Carpool’s lead singer Stoph Colasanto.
Blending self-deprecating humor with raw vulnerability, “VAN” captures the quiet chaos of social burnout and emotional retreat. With lyrics that toggle between isolation and ironic self-awareness, it paints a vivid portrait of a protagonist lost in their own head, ditching parties, dodging friends, and avoiding accountability.
Summerbruise started as a smaller project from lead vocalist and lyricist Mike Newman (he/him) back in 2015 and has since grown into a full band made up of Stanli Fryman (she/her) on drums, John Parkison (them/he) on bass, and guitarists Mitch Gulish (he/him) and Cora Kunda (she/her). They now affectionately refer to themselves as Summerbruise 2.0, and under that guise this new record is their first official release as a collaborative unit.
Mike Newman shared his thoughts on the new record, “This was our first time in the studio since officially expanding from two members to five, and our first time ever writing together as a full band. Having so many more hands on the ball was exciting on it’s own, but the fact that some of those hands were fresh off of recording two of my unbiased favorite releases of the last few years (Arcadia Grey’s Casually Crashing and S@YP’s always cloudy) meant I got to watch what I would humbly consider a dream team of four of the most talented musicians I’ve ever known take these little stems and snippets of my ideas and develop them into songs I never could have dreamed of.”
Summerbruise isn’t just another emo band – It’s a collective of close friends who are navigating the tribulations of adulthood and commiserating over some of the more mundane tasks that life entails. Their writing consistently finds the bittersweet space between humor and heartbreak.
Since the beginning, their music has been both haunted and propelled by death, most notably by two separate and significant occurrences. The first was the death of Mike’s dad in January 2017 and the second was the death of his close friend some eight months later. Both occurring just after the release of Summerbruise’s first release, the seven-track Bummer Vacation. Following that album was 2022’s The View Never Changes and 2024’s Better Vacation which garnered an outpouring of support from fans.
Newman’s deep, personal fear of death is very much present within the fabric of this album. Recorded at producer Nick Starrantino’s Deadend Studio on Long Island, these 12 tracks play tug-of-war between Newman’s own quirky vulnerability and the steady guiding hand of his musical co-conspirators.