Jack Antonoff has quietly issued a new Bleachers song titled "The Van," an autobiographical track lifted from the band’s forthcoming album Everyone For Ten Minutes, due to arrive on May 22. The song opens with a line that foregrounds its personal bent — "Left the house years ago, here’s the story of a kid and his shadow" — and finds Antonoff recounting memory and movement in a markedly intimate tone.
Released ahead of the full record, "The Van" is being presented as a first glimpse of the themes Antonoff will explore across Everyone For Ten Minutes. The track’s narrative focus and the artist’s own description mark it explicitly as autobiographical; the lyric image of a kid and his shadow suggests a reckoning with youth, departure and the lingering traces of the past. Listeners can now stream the single, which serves as the lead preview of the album arriving next month.
Antonoff fronts Bleachers and is widely known both for his work with the project and for his production and songwriting collaborations with major pop and indie artists. As a songwriter-producer, he has repeatedly mined personal history and cinematic pop textures, and with "The Van" he returns to a confessional mode that fans have come to expect from Bleachers releases. The new single continues Antonoff’s pattern of combining lyrical specificity with widescreen pop-rock production.
Everyone For Ten Minutes is slated for release on May 22, bringing new material from Bleachers after a period of high-profile outside work for Antonoff. The announcement of the album and the release of "The Van" will likely shape expectations for the full record’s lyrical focus; the single’s autobiographical framing signals a record rooted in memory and self-reflection rather than purely conceptual pastiche.
Critical and fan response to the single is beginning to accumulate as listeners parse the song’s references and production choices for clues about the rest of the album. Whether "The Van" will set the tonal template for Everyone For Ten Minutes remains to be seen, but the track has already provided a clear statement of intent: an artist looking back with a storyteller’s precision, staking new ground in familiar territory.
"The Van" is available to stream now, and Everyone For Ten Minutes will be released worldwide on May 22. Further details about the album’s tracklist, collaborators or tour plans have not been disclosed alongside the single.