Eliza McLamb’s new single, “Suffering,” starts with a tinkly piano line and the cooed lyrics “Poor maudlin child/ So wise behind my years.” McLamb sounds sweet and forlorn. That’s merely preamble. The song soon expands to a thrumming guitar tune that draws on nineteen-nineties alternative rock in a manner similar to Waxahatchee circa Ivy Tripp. Simultaneously, McLamb cuts to the song’s dark punchline, a confession of pursuing the safety of misery: “If I’m without it I can’t figure out the point of anything/ I get fucked, I play the victim/ Fuck myself to do it quicker/ Oh yeah, I get off on suffering.” I have a feeling there are plenty of people who can relate.

Good Story, the new album from McLamb, is scheduled for release in October.