Sometimes you don’t realize how much you’ve been missing something until it suddenly re-appears. Like a good bit of musical relationship therapy from Overlord. Brooklyn’s fave curio popsters finally return after a two and half year absence with a pair of songs that anticipate a whole new album to come (tentatively entitled Tragedy Gold). Get ready for some seriously clever lyrical sophistication and hooky tunes! In the meantime we’ve got two songs to hold us over and they certainly bode well for what is to come.

Repeated listens so far fail to reveal an A side/B side divide to me. Both tunes sound like the main event. And while they seem like they might be related to each other with the ‘ex-girlfriends’ and ‘crying boyfriend’ themes a closer inspection reveals quite different lyrical foci. “The Boy Who Cried Goodbye” ponders whether the boy in question is really suffering or just a drama queen, played out over a music bed that vibes Magnetic Fields or They Might Be Giants. But “The City of Ex-Girlfriends” shifts focus, lifting its lyrical narrative directly from the pages of DC Superman comics and the flying hero’s adventures with his sometime girlfriend, the aquatically-constrained Lori Lamaris. Musically there’s a subtle bit of what sounds like a The The keyboard progression added to the generally Stephen Merritt-ish mix. These two songs signal Overlord is back poppier than ever, just when we need them most.

Isn’t it time you had a session with Overlord? That was a rhetorical question. Hit the hyperlinks to perform your proper fealty now.