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This summer has led alternative artists to reflect on their careers due to creating projects of varying successes.

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

Last month, the Minneapolis band 12 Rods announced their first new album in 21 years, If We Stayed Alive, which will be released at the beginning of July. They shared “My Year (This Is Going To Be)” at the time, and today they’ve returned with a second single, “Private Spies.” “Private Spies is about those of us who control and document the finest rumors, secrets and gossip in our communities,” bandleader Ryan Olcott said in a statement. “Written over 20 years ago amidst my power faction research in socialite Minneapolis. Probably my hardest son...

12 RODS, also stylized as 12RODS or Twelve Rods, is widely an univestigated mystery of the 1990s.

“My Year (This Is Going to Be)” is the first single from Ryan Olcott’s If We Stayed Alive