CLEVELAND, Ohio - It's been an exciting year for Samfox. The bluesy indie band made appearances at local festivals LaureLive and Larchmere PorchFest. It performed on the Fox 8 segment "Kickin' It With Kenny." It opened for Black Pistol Fire, Rainbow Kitten Surprise and Welshly Arms at various venues around town. Most recently, Samfox won the "Best Indie Band" award from Cleveland Magazine.

However, in terms of new music, Samfox has stayed mostly quiet in 2017. Just one song was released this year in October, "Baby Blues."

But today, the band has joined with cleveland.com to premiere its newest song "Misunderstood." You can hear the song below.

The song was a tough one for singer and guitarist Braxton Taylor to write. "Misunderstood" is about anxiety and trying to relate to that experience. Taylor said he wrote the song from the perspective of drummer Josh Montgomery, who deals with the disorder.

Taylor said the song was an exercise in empathy and trying to understand Montgomery's thought process.

"[You're] trying to make sense of everything but at the same time, you're very misunderstood and having all this pressure on you," said Taylor. "Where sometimes you feel like yourself, sometimes you kind of don't."

"Misunderstood" and "Baby Blues" are the only songs Samfox has released since its debut EP "The Feels" in 2016. Initially, the band set out to create a second EP this year, but ditched the idea in favor of releasing singles one by one.

Samfox has made a good amount of progress with song production this year, and might be close to compiling its new tunes into something, whether it's an EP or an album. "We're sitting on five songs that are almost done," said trumpeter and guitarist Randall Hoyle.

These new songs are Samfox's best music yet, said Taylor and Hoyle. "We're trying to hit it really hard with our writing process, and take those to the next tier of producers and engineers to work with us," said Taylor. "We want to have really good content to take to them."

The band created content that was good enough to win the best indie band award, but the bandmates still don't seem to accept it. At least, not yet.

"There are so many bands in Cleveland and to say that there could even be a best is almost an impossible task," said Taylor.

"In 2018, we're just trying to be the best band in Cleveland, for real," said Hoyle.