Back in April, Boston indie rockers The Morning Herald debuted “Plus One,” an uneasy tune about a dinner date with a fittingly trippy lyric video. Now, they’ve followed up that song with their latest track, “Stuck in a Box,” a swaggering single with a sense of energy that never lets up. Like the previous release, it’s a groovy song that captures the tense anxiety of its lyrics and is bound to get stuck in your head.

Starting off with a chugging riff that serves as the basis of the song, “Stuck in a Box” wastes no time kicking into gear with a punchy drumbeat and persistent vocal melody, adding a pounding piano part and distortion-heavy guitar solo to the fray later on. Lyrically, the song deals with the nervous frustration of feeling habitually trapped and repeating the same mistakes, with a growing need to break out of those constrictions and patterns. Vocalist and songwriter Zach Leone peppers the song with a number of imaginative metaphors expressing that sentiment, including the self-deprecating, “I’ll be the prototype for falling on the pavement.” With a driving riff and a booming, infectious chorus, “Stuck in a Box” is a tremendously catchy rock song and makes for another great release from The Morning Herald.

The track is paired, once again, with a aesthetically retro lyric video to match the song’s garage rock stylings. Like on “Plus One,” the video builds off a continuously looped clip — this time, an old-school tape machine — with a number of synchronized post-production effects. Quick push transitions mark the song’s explosion on its anthemic chorus, and film stock color tampering deftly matches the sound of the gradually intensifying bridge. Add to that a playful sense of humor in the transcribed lyrics — including a three second “(Break)” and a riff denoted as “(Guitah)” — and the lyric video for “Stuck in a Box” is just as engaging and lively as the song itself.

Watch the lyric video for “Stuck in a Box” below, and listen to the song on your streaming platform of choice.