Carlie Hanson has returned with a frank new single known as “Residing Feeling Useless.”

The monitor follows her second album, Wisconsin, which she shared earlier this 12 months and serves as her alt-pop love letter to the Midwest. Whereas her newest music feels completely different than those on that file, they possess the same thorough line. Hanson’s songs stem from a spot of open sincerity and tenderness, the place she’s unafraid to put her emotions naked. On “Residing Feeling Useless,” she does precisely that. The accompanying music video, directed by Hanson and Ryan Schaefer, reveals her each grinding and goofing round within the studio as she switches from fierce vocal takes to taking a break to rage.

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“Every time I’d return residence to Wisconsin after lacking it for thus lengthy, inside the subsequent week, I’m prepared to maneuver on and get again to work,” Hanson advised AP earlier this 12 months. “However then once more, I wished to spend as a lot time as doable with my household and associates. It’s a continuing battle. You need to make sacrifices.”

See the video for “Residing Feeling Useless” beneath.