Superchunk is back from their 2025 US tour, and they’ve returned bearing gifts. Today, their cover of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs stunner “I Don’t Want to Get Over You,” originally released on a tour-exclusive 7-inch, is available wherever you stream music. The 7-inch, which also features a cover of Look Blue Go Purple’s “I Don’t Want You Anyway,” is now available for purchase from the Merge store or via Superchunk’s Bandcamp page. “I Don't Want to Get Over You” is now available wherever you stream music.

No strangers to the allure of Stephin Merritt’s songbook, Superchunk’s take on “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” recasts The Magnetic Fields’ depressive epic as a manic, guitar-forward ripper, making Merritt’s lyrics writhe in an entirely new kind of agony. Featuring regularly on their 2025 setlists, the track’s magic is similar to what Superchunk accomplished on 2025’s Songs in the Key of Yikes songs like “No Hope” and “Everybody Dies,” making a triumphant, danceable anthem despite the looming abyss.

Mac McCaughan, on “I Don’t Want to Get Over You”:

Stephin Merritt's songs have been inspiring me since The Magnetic Fields' "100,000 Fireflies" single came into the record store where i worked in 1991. Superchunk covered that song back then and this year we recorded another Magnetic Fields classic, "I Don't Want To Get Over You" from their epic 69 Love Songs album. Stephin's songs remind me of The Ramones in their classic pop simplicity & we play this one that way. 

We came home with a handful of the tour 7-inch (featuring amazing sleeve art by Glen Baldridge) and the B-side is by another one of our favorite artists, NZ's Look Blue, Go Purple. 

“I Don’t Want to Get Over You” brings an end to a busy 2025 for Superchunk, whose Songs in the Key of Yikes was released on August 21, 2025. The album is a showcase of the band’s calling cards: visceral, timeless and catchy as hell. 

Praise for Songs in the Key of Yikes:

“A warm current flows through [Songs in the Key of Yikes]: It emanates from Superchunk’s inherent chemistry … they continue to find nourishment in flinty punk and prickly power pop, the sonic signatures they’ve developed over the years. Their shared enthusiasm remains infectious.” —Pitchfork

“Quintessential Superchunk...They sound as vital and urgent and purposeful and completely inspired as they ever have.” —NPR

“Old habits die hard. ‘No Hope’ applies Superchunk's lifelong commitment to punk and indie-rock to the present moment: ‘Here we are singing “no hope, hope, no hope, no hope,”’ declares Mac McCaughan, Superchunk’s founder and leader since 1989. Punk’s response to oppression has always been defiant noise, loud major chords and singalong choruses flung at institutional foes. Will it be enough?” —New York Times

“Songs in the Key of Yikes is proof that Superchunk hasn’t lost a step and remains a one-of-a-kind band.” —AllMusic

“Wherever they may be at this very moment, Superchunk are still busily rocking out in a riotus affirmation of life amid uncertain times.” —Qobuz

“These big, generous songs land an emotional punch.” —Mojo

“Their ability to turn despair to joy even stretches as far as being able to turn a song called ‘Everybody Dies’ into a thrilling, fuzzed-out blast.” —Uncut

“They’ve been incredibly consistent. But that consistency is also in doing something that sounds perpetually combustible and on the verge of careening out of control. It’s a beautiful juxtaposition: being reliably explosive.” —SPIN

“Super cathartic indie rock as only Superchunk can do” —Bandcamp Daily