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San Francisco band Young Prisms shares the fourth offering from their forthcoming album Drifter, due March 25th via Fire Talk. "Outside Air" arrives accompanied by a black-and-white, seaside video directed by Gio Betteo and starring vocalist Stefanie Hodapp. The visuals for "Outside Air" act as the sequel to the band's video for "Honeydew" released earlier this year, also directed by Betteo and starring Hodapp.

Speaking on the video, Betteo offered, "The 'Outside Air' video is intended to be the second installment of a series we started with 'Honeydew'. Really an ode to Antonioni and Monica Vitti. Definitely leaning into the mystery and minimalism of the story telling style and how something so simple on the surface can offer so much complexity beneath."

On the track itself, Betteo and Hodapp said, "'Outside Air' is about the struggles and difficulties in modern marriage, monogamy, and parenting at a young age. Resentment within a relationship can sink so deep and feel never ending but the work it takes can pull you out of a depression. At times it may feel like the only way out is to run away, but the payoff can sometimes save you from making irreversible decisions. This song was recorded during the California wildfires where the orange sky embodied these feelings of fear, anger, and disappointment."

Drifter, which marks the first full-length album from the group in nearly 10 years, will feature the previously released singles "Honeydew," "Yourside" and "Self Love" and is produced by Shaun Durkan [Weeknd, Soft Kill]. The 12-tracks of Drifter find the steadiness in the embrace of uncertainty, where Young Prisms explore the tension and release that comes with bringing your head down from the clouds to make sense of the tangible entanglements that make up everyday existence.