Now, Now return with a lighter step on Slide

Now, Now wrote a song about not letting other people's expectations run your life, and made it glide. "Slide," out October 15, is the Minneapolis duo's new single.

KC Dalager and Brad Hale have been making records together since Cars in 2008, through Threads in 2012 and Saved in 2018. Then a long quiet: Dalager released a solo album as KC Rae, Hale worked as a producer. The four-song EP 01 arrived unannounced in October 2025, their first new music since 2019.

Slide follows about a year on. The visualizer, filmed at Skateville in Burnsville, Minnesota, and co-directed by Dalager, Hale and Tom Thornton, centers her footwork.

The song lives up to the setting: a slinky, pulsing synth-pop groove, sleeker than the duo's earlier work, low end pushing underneath a vocal that stays level on top. Dalager calls the lyric plain and lighthearted, and it is. It states a position and holds it. She has said she spent years feeling trapped in other people's unwanted feelings, and this is the opposite of that. That choice is audible in how little the track worries.

It is for the walk to something that makes you nervous, and for anyone who has kept Threads in rotation since 2012.

What does not work is the runtime. Four minutes and twenty seconds is a lot of room for a song this even-tempered, and Slide barely uses it. The groove holds its shape so carefully that it never breaks; by the last pass the smoothness reads as caution.

Still, it lands where it aims: controlled, unbothered, the work of two people who have decided what they are willing to spend. The band, Dalager has said, is mindful of its energy and resources, and nothing here overdraws. A 3.5. Good, and a little airless.

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