Silversun Pickups announced their forthcoming sixth record, Physical Thrills, and shared its first single, “Scared Together,” and its accompanying video, today. The Butch Vig-produced album will release on Aug. 19 via New Machine Recordings, and is, of course, available to pre-order. Silversun Pickups’ photographer Claire Marie Vogel directed the “Scared Together” video. The band’s guitarist and singer Brian Aubert said of the track in a statement: “This song is about becoming close and intimate with someone through hardship. Being thrown into something quite frightening brings out some shared qualities that connect them.” Physical Thrills came as a result of the boredom brought on by the pandemic, when Aubert was taking care of...