From the punchy drums onward, “No Joy,” the new single from the Beths, is nicely noisy bliss. The New Zealand band needs no reinvention, so they go headlong at what they do best: crunchy, squalling guitars, a deliriously catchy hook, halting tempos, and tight, tart lyrics (“All my pleasures: guilty/ Clean slate looking filthy/ This year’s gonna kill me.”). This is the pop music future that was promised by all those bands I swooned for as an undergraduate student, flipping through the new albums in the college radio booth all those years. That Superchunk put out the spiritually similar — and exceptional — single “No Hope” this week only reinforces that conclusion.

The new album from the Beths, Straight Line Was a Lie, is scheduled for release in August.