Regardlessof whether you’re a hot weather or cold weather type of person there’s nodenying that feeling of freedom and the moment of realizing you can kick backand relax when summertime finally comes.

It’s agreat time: perhaps up until now you’re stressed with work or education, you’reworried about the status of all things wrong with the world, or simply have anongoing existential crisis where you just don’t know anything. But summertimecomes around, you’re reunited with friends who are all just about as done withlife as you are and are now free to plan all the fun times you can have overthe next few months.

That’s thefeeling Better Days try to capture and perfectly represent in their new single:The Summer.

Yes, Better Days are back after months of touring and recording following the release of their debut EP What You Did To Me back in November. For a while now they have been teasing the release of new music, as well as a new tour (check back on Sunday), and now it’s finally here.

In brief:this track beautifully captures the feeling and experiences that one has duringthe warm summertime…well hence the name but anyway, the main point is that itis exactly what it says on the tin…. Ok we’ll stop.

In length: with instrumentals and backing tracks that have heavy influence from the likes of Neck Deep, The Bottom Line and State Champs the lyric's begin with every millennial’s worst nightmare: “Stuck in a dead end job that I can barely endure” as well as “everyone’s living lives that I’m jealous of cos I don’t know where I belong.”

“Well”, youmight think, “that’s not really a song that best represents summer”. But hangon, as we head towards the chorus things start to get better and soon we arereminded of some of our favourite moments: “Music’s playing, friends areswaying, summer is here. I’m home, and the bad thoughts disappear.” And in asummary of what we’ve all thought growing up: “I’ve been waiting for the summerall year.”

Overall this is an uplifting, energetic track that’s guaranteed to bring nostalgia. While it’s not 100% a “everything is perfect and awesome” track that can still be a good thing. It’s only human that we experience all of these bad thoughts and worries, and we are allowed to forget about these things, even for a moment. That’s what Better Days have perfectly summed here.