Song Recommendation: “The Prize” by Maneater (2025)

It’s a slight case of “first track/best track” with Maneater’s new Curb Your Appetite, but I can’t really fault them since “The Prize” is such a barnburner that I’m not sure any successive track could exceed the fiery barely controlled chaos of this track. Reminding me just a bit of the early rioutous sounds from Wolf Parade, the song roars out of the gate with a set of mile-high organ blasts before settling into a tight dual-vocaled stretch that just begs the listener to crank the volume knob to max and roll those windows down. And we get an excellent little heartland-accented guitar solo in the back-half to really set this track apart.