Although it’s been many, many (many, many, many) years since I set my internal clock by the schedule of a college radio station, some vestiges remain. For example, as the calendar page flips and the thirty-one squares of May are on the wall, I started tingling in anticipation of the song that will be perfect for summer playlists, when sunlight is pouring down and what’s needed more than anything else is a track that will inspire the upward twist of the car radio volume knob as the windows are urgently rolled down.

With its thumping rhythm, glimmering production, and hook that demands to be sung with pure exuberance (“All the cities that we burned down” is a lyric that drives an adrenaline spike right into my withering vein of youthful rebellion), I do believe “Hard to Kill,” the new single from Bleached, lands squarely in the middle of the net I’ve just started swinging. This is the kind of song that radio transmitter towers are built for.