“I don’t really know/ Why I like you/ I’ve been doing just fine/ On my own,” Leslie Hong sings on “Get Down,” the new single from Haybaby. The band’s sophomore full-length, They Get There, arrives in early June, and the new track from the trio flashes a mix of poignancy and tender, tentative insight that presumably forecasts the record to come.

Hong expertly employs Jenny Lewis’s trick from the scrappier, more emotionally fraught Rilo Kiley records, working her intensity gradually upward, the music — including the rhythm provided by bassist Sam Yield and drummer Jeremy Duvall — just barely staying caught up with the escalation, as if tagging close behind as a spotter. Everything can collapse at any time, and we’re all just feeling our way through. “Get Down” comes across as neither battle cry nor survivor’s testimony. It is reportage, with static electricity charges of therapeutical confession crackling around it.