Photo: Warren Kommers

Big Black Delta is the musical project of Los Angeles’ Jonathan Bates, who’s also logged time as a touring musician for M83. Here’s his hard-hitting new single, “Side of the Road,” which he tells Hive is the culmination of a few different things. “I wanted to make a song that sounded what I thought flying and forgiveness would sound like,” he says. “That and sexual liberation.” Consider us liberated.

Stream “Side of the Road” below: