“We never had the time, money or resources to do anything other than make live-sounding, guitar-oriented records,” says 26-year-old Sadie Dupuis, the lead singer of Speedy Ortiz. The band hails from indie-friendly Western Massachusetts — once home to members of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and the Pixies — and Dupuis is an active participant in its thriving arts scene; she’s shown paintings at the Flywheel gallery and curated exhibitions and multimedia performances at the Flying Object space that’s boosted by the poets Dara Wier and Peter Gizzi and the artist Rick Myers. For now, though, Dupuis is focused on music; Speedy Ortiz’s latest record, “Foil Deer,” is out today. Although the album is still shaped by the grungy, garage-rock-inspired sound fans will recognize from the band’s 2013 debut, “Major Arcana,” the arrangements on “Foil Deer” also take cues from ’90s pop-rock outfits like No Doubt. “The first record is a sad breakup record, which is fine, but it’s not really the place I’m in now,” Dupuis says. “On this record, I’m working out broader, more universal human issues and not just things that are super close to me.”

In keeping with this more playful aesthetic — and with Dupuis’s artistic roots — the video for Speedy Ortiz’s new song, “The Graduates,” was inspired by a trip to an arts and crafts store. The band had conceived of a loose idea for a video centered on a crime spree and heist, but changed the concept slightly after Dupuis spotted the shop’s assortment of plastic glue-on eyes. The result is a psychedelic romp in which “Speedy Ortiz is a group of merry pranksters trying to liberate our peers into the truth of love and freedom,” Dupuis explains, “through googly eyes.” It premieres exclusively here.