EL VY‘s coming, hide your heart, girl.   EL VY (Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf) has already given us several good reasons to be big fans of this project (along with an impressive performance on Conan), and today have offered up new, coming-of-music-age cut Paul Is Alive.  Their promising album Return to the Moon will be released on October 30th on 4AD.

About the new song, Berninger says:  “I think ‘Paul Is Alive’ is about finally finding the water that you can breathe in, finding a place or a person that makes you feel like you. It’s very much my story of what Cincinnati was like, growing up and falling in love with music, discovering these little places where like-minded people could find each other.”

Listen/watch/read-along below in which Berninger name-checks “Hüsker Du and The Smiths/ The Sluggos, [and] The Cramps.  With it’s sinister-esque guitar-play, Paul Is Alive leans to the Cramps side of that equation, with additive Ghost Town (The Specials) overtones.  Once again, we love it.