Haim have shared their new single, The Steps, after revealing their third studio album, Women In Music Pt III, will be released on April 24.

The Steps pushes guitar to the forefront in a way the band has not done before. Clean, chorused electric guitar, overdriven lead lines, and strummed acoustic 12-strings lock in together to generate what feels like an endless chug, resulting in one of Haim’s fastest and heaviest songs to date. 

The Steps was written by the band, along with longtime collaborators Ariel Rechsthaid and Rostam Batmanglij. 

Danielle says the album name “came to me in a dream and I woke up laughing so I told my sisters.” 

Alana said she liked it because “we are literally women in music and we always get written about that way, so it seemed cool to make it our own and control the narrative. It made me think about some of our experiences more.” 

Meanwhile, Este says she just thought it was funny as the initials make up WIMP3. “Wimp is a hilarious word.”