With their latest single ‘Fired Up’, Indoor Friends throw gasoline on the embers of millennial burnout, and strike a match with unapologetic joy. Born from the late-night musings of growing older and still wanting to scream into the void, this track feels like a late-summer anthem for anyone who ever danced through disappointment and came out the other side grinning.
Indoor Friends have always worn many hats, part punk, part pop, part power-chorded therapy session, and ‘Fired Up’ is the tightest distillation of their strengths yet. The guitars crash, the rhythm section barrels forward like it’s got somewhere important to be, and Amanda Bysheim’s vocals vibrantly split the difference between command and catharsis. You can practically see the sweaty DIY venue in the way she belts the chorus.
But what sets ‘Fired Up’ apart is the optimism tucked inside the noise. This isn’t a song about ignoring hardship, it’s about daring it to try you. The track’s bones are built on that early 2000s nostalgia, but the blood running through it feels very current, with lyrics that resist defeat, arrangements that hold nothing back, and a band that sounds completely locked in, both emotionally and musically.
There’s something refreshing about a song that doesn’t just bemoan the weight of adulthood but punches back; with a grin, wink, and guitar solo. ‘Fired Up’ is both a love letter to youthful defiance and a cry for everyone still learning how to carry their past without being buried by it.
If this is what Indoor Friends sound like when they lean into hope, we’re all better for it. Let it play loud, and maybe scream along.
