“When the music plays, I was never alone.” So sings Greg Attonito, singer for the Bouncing Souls, towards the end of the new single, “Up To Us.” It’s a succinct description of the message contained in both the video and song, off the band’s latest album Simplicity, which is out today. The record is both a back-to-basics album of hard-charging punk and a deepening of the themes and topics the group’s music has addressed throughout its existence, of which “Up To Us” is an ideal distillation. Holding up photos of themselves through the years, the video mirrors the anthemic charge of the music, which roars with sing-along hooks while maintaining the knife-edge sharpness of the band’s sound. Attonito, speaking to The A.V. Club, explains it thusly: