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Oakland post-punk rockers Street Eaters will release their brand new studio album Opaque on September 5 via Dirt Cult Records – seven tracks that thrum with both rage and redemption. Since their last album in 2017, not only did they weather a global pandemic along with the rest of us, frontwoman Megan March also had a child. While becoming a mother was, as she puts it, “an incredible joy and opportunity to rewire emotional pathways and deep wounds,” childbirth was both a traumatizing and transformational experience. Ironically born on the Fourth of July, her baby immediately entered a world steeped in bureaucracy, as the hospital was so understaffed that Megan was neglected until the last moment, forced to endure an emergency C-section.

New single “Spectres” is a haunting incantation whose doomy atmosphere belies its sweet core. Reflecting on healthy parenthood, Megan processes her past while striving to imbue love and caring direction for her son while also understanding that she has to empower him to be his own person. Her own mother was violently homophobic and eventually ejected Megan and her teenage sister — both queer — from their home. “I’m working to create a much better emotional landscape for my son to grow in — to find both understanding and healing from the breakage of cycles of abuse and isolation,” she says.