One month after dropping the Song of the Summer contender “Quitting,” Eliza McLamb is back with the new single “Like the Boys.”
The track is a slow-burning charmer that sneaks up on you, quietly building into seismic, cathartic riffs as McLamb reflects on being a girl among the boys. “I wanted to gain their authority, their audacity,” she said in a statement. “I wanted them to love me like they loved each other. And looking back now, I see how we all played pretend with one another. I also see how play can be violent.”
McLamb dropped the single alongside the announcement of her new album, Good Story, out Oct. 24 via Royal Mountain Records. The record follows her magnetizing debut Going Through It, which she released last year; Rolling Stone named her an Artist You Need to Know.
“If you get really good at telling the story of who you are, you become the story you told instead of the ever-dynamic, ever-changing person you have to be,” McLamb said of the record. “I did really well telling the story of who I am, but I began asking: What’s the point of it?”
Returning to the producer chair is Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin, who also worked on Going Through It (“she’s like an author, approaching music in a very long-form prose style,” Tudzin said of McLamb in our interview). McLamb, Tudzin, and guitarist Jacob Blizzard (known for his work with Lucy Dacus) co-wrote material upstate before heading south to Asheville’s Drop of Sun Studios to record in the spring of 2025. The band was rounded out by bassist Ryan Ficano, keyboardist Sarah Goldstone, and drummer Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie.
In the album bio, McLamb detailed themes of Good Story, particularly storytelling. “It’s an investigation into what a story actually does for me,” she said. “The point is that not everything fits into a narrative.”
Good Story Track List
1. “Better Song”
2. “Like the Boys”
3. “California”
4. “Suffering”
5. “Good Story”
6. “Promise”
7. “Water Inside the Fence”
8. “Talisman”
9. “Mausoleum”
10. “Forever, Like That”
11. “Every Year”
12. “Girls I Know”
13. “Getting Free”
