In 1994 and 1995, Sunny Day Real Estate released Diary and LP2. They broke up during the making of LP2, with frontman Jeremy Enigk embarking on a solo career and bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith joining Dave Grohl's band Foo Fighters. In 1997, the band reunited (without Mendel), and released How It Feels to Be Something On in 1998 and The Rising Tide in 2000. In 2003, Enigk, Goldsmith, and Mendel released an album together under the name the Fire Theft.

Sunny Day Real Estate reunited for a tour once again in 2009, and it was reported that they were working on new material. However, Mendel said the recordings "fell apart". Now, the band has big news: They're releasing a new song on Record Store Day (April 19).

The release is a split with Circa Survive and features exclusive tracks from both bands. SDRE's song is called "Lipton Witch"; it's their first new song since The Rising Tide was released in 2000.

Circa Survive's track is called "Bad Heart", recorded after the release of the band's last album, 2012's Violent Waves. The artwork (above) is by Chris Thompson, who did the art for Diary and How It Feels to Be Something On.

It's a limited pressing, with 2,400 coming out on burgundy vinyl and 100 on clear vinyl.

Brendan Ekstrom from Circa Survive wrote about how the split came about:

I went to see a few of the Sunny Day Real Estate shows when they toured in 2009 and I knew they’d written and recorded at least one song during that time. I got Jeremy Enigk’s info from a mutual friend and emailed him asking if they had anything planned with the track. I knew they were on a hiatus and I hated the idea of that song never being released. Jeremy spoke with the other guys who all seemed interested to do the split I had I proposed. We had a B-side we’d been sitting on that had a mellower vibe which seemed to balance their more rocking song in a way that another upbeat jam might not have. I couldn’t be more happy that this is happening. I honestly think this one of the best songs Sunny Day has ever written and I’m really happy that fans are going to get to hear it.

Check out Sunny Day Real Estate's video for "Seven":