Biting, genuine, thoughtful, playful, joyful, and sincere, Nashville's Jive Talk embrace contradictions and exist to confound—a band that captures the dizzy surreality of being alive in confusing times. After a series of singles and EPs like 2023’s The Business, Jive Talk—singer Oliver Pierce, multi-instrumentalists Isaac Middleton and Andres Ahogado, bassist and producer Ben Dunn, and drummer Philip Walker—have settled into a new era that finds them doubling down on their complexities, while writing some of their most vulnerable songs to date.

The group’s new single “Rat People,” highlights sharp, urgent layers of guitars and rollicking percussion, while exploring the idea of being an outsider—a concept that has become a throughline in the group’s latest work. With their new music, the members of Jive Talk stand confident in their role as boundary pushers and leaders of a non-country music vanguard in Nashville. Their mission remains: “I want us to find the outsiders and create a community that celebrates the strange,” Pierce says.