On Thurston Moore’s birthday today, The Daydream Library Series record label has released his latest single “New In Town” from the upcoming album Flow Critical Lucidity, out on September 20. An album release party with in-store performance and signing has been set for September 22 at Rough Trade East in London, as well as more appearances at the Miami Book Fair, a special week of improvisation at The Stone in NYC & more below.

The experimental “New In Town” utilizes prepared guitar, piano, and electronics with lyrics by Radieux Radio recalling 1980s D.C. punk and hardcore bands Minor Threat, Fugazi, Bad Brains, Red C and beyond.

Thurston explains: “The song is about fresh blood. The new kid in school. The new kid on the scene. A new potential for change in an already active community hoping to protect the world from the poisons of power-hungry creeps. The spirit of youth demonstrated in the early ’80s slam pits of hardcore refusing the worn-out expectations of adulthood.”