SINGLE PREMIERE: The Dollar Bill Murrays - I Want Everything

Emergent Brisbane four-piece The Dollar Bill Murrays are back on the scene with a super-smooth new jam, I Want Everything, to herald the impending arrival of their second EP this May.

First things first: yes, this song — particularly in its early stages, before the divergence of its chorus helps to more definitively distinguish it — undeniably sounds heavily inspired by Queens Of The Stone Age's beloved down-tempo jam Make It Wit Chu.

But, by the same token, Make It Wit Chu is an objectively awesome track so, really, how could its evident influence here possibly a bad thing? Well, basically, it can't be, and the Queensland act transcend whatever conscious or unconscious origins may be at play to deliver an accomplished tune all their own, centred on frontman Felix Lindgren's silken vocals and sombre lyrics, underpinned by deep grooves and an infectious, ambling momentum.

"I was searching for who I was and what I wanted to be, and I ended up neglecting some important people in my life," Lindgren said of the song's themes in a statement. "At the tail end of my search, I found myself looking back to where I started and realised I was happier before I started looking."

That's definitely a bummer, but at least he and his band-mates wrangled a worthwhile result out of the journey: a tight and polished alt-rock ditty that bears no signs of the tumult that marked its creation. And it wasn't just emotional turbulence they overcame, either; all four members of the band individually fell ill during its recording and, according to the band's press material, Lindgren was only able to record his vocals in the final hours of their last day in the studio. You'd never know it listening to it now, though.

Amid the sonic nods to other contemporary alt-rock vanguards such as The Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys, there's more than enough here to set The Dollar Bill Murrays apart on their own merits as they continue to grow and follow on from their last single effort, Medicine. That track earned the boys airplay on triple j Unearthed following its release in July, in the wake of their April 2016 self-titled debut EP, itself mastered by former QOTSA live member John McBain.

If you're digging the vibes and local to Brisbane, you can catch the band in action at the I Want Everything launch show at Foundry Records on Saturday 18 March, with support from their mates in Port Royal and other special guests.

Otherwise, you can keep connected with what The Dollar Bill Murrays are up to on their Facebook page as they ramp up towards their next extended player in a few months' time.