Next Step

Next Step is the second single from The Free Rock Trio's third studio album Gone Wild. It was released on YouTube and Bandcamp on August 21, 2020, with a worldwide release date coming later on September 1, 2020, primarily in promotion for the album's announcement the following Friday.

The music video depicts the trio playing the song in a moving car; the car is guitarist Jacob Keplinger's 2017 Honda Fit, which is being driven by drummer Justin Siegel. The idea for this video came to Keplinger the weekend prior to filming, when he was driving from Boston to Cheshire. He was listening to the fresh masters of the album, and decided to film himself driving and lip syncing to the track using a fisheye lens mounted on his cell phone, which was mounted on his dashboard. He then sent this video to the band's group chat, and the rest is history.

The title of the song comes from the wah-wah pedal the band was toying with in the studio the day this song was written- an Electro-Harmonix Next Step Crying Wah.

The artwork for the track appears as a blank black square, but with boosted brightness reveals the band's name and the song title.