Makthaverskan have returned with a brand new two-song single "Demands" b/w "Onkel." The A-side is the band in classic form: jangly guitars, memorable bass lines accompanied by a driving drum performance all help to push vocalist Maja Milner's soaring words into the stratosphere. On the opposite end, "Onkel" is faster paced, building up into a crescendo that recalls influences like the Cranberries and the Cocteau Twins. Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, the post punk five-piece roused a worldwide following with the single "No Mercy" and the release of their sophomore album II via Boston's Run For Cover and Sweden's Luxury Records. The failure of love and loss of innocence that punctuated II and "No Mercy's" searing condemnation of "fuck you for fucking me when I was seventeen" later gave way to a new worldview on follow up LP Ill (2017), and continue on two brand new singles "Demands" and "Onkel." With the band navigating through their mid-to-late twenties, closer "Days Turn Into Years" encapsulates the visceral shift in how time is felt and internalized. The band subdues its lilting chords ever so slightly and Milner slips into a lower register for the refrain. This is Makthaverskan settling in, but not relinquishing to complacency.