{"id":53360,"date":"2025-12-05T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:13:15","slug":"scranton-indie-rockers-tigers-jaw-announce-2026-album-release-single-head-is-like-a-sinking-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53360\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton indie rockers Tigers Jaw announce 2026 album, release single ‘Head Is Like a Sinking Stone’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From a press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today, Tigers Jaw<\/a> released their first new music in over four years \u2013 a song titled \u201cHead Is Like a Sinking Stone\u201d \u2013 and announced a new full-length album, \u201cLost on You,\u201d<\/a> is coming on March 27, 2026 via Hopeless Records.<\/p>\n

Their seventh record and follow-up to their critically-acclaimed 2021 LP \u201cI Won\u2019t Care How You Remember Me\u201d was produced\/engineered by their longtime collaborator Will Yip (The Menzingers, Title Fight, Turnstile, Movements) at his famed Studio 4<\/a> in Conshohocken and captures the energy and spirit of the live show the Scranton indie rock quintet \u2013 Ben Walsh (guitar, vocals), Brianna Collins (keys, vocals), Mark Lebiecki (guitar), Colin Gorman (bass), and Teddy Roberts (drums) \u2013 is known for.<\/p>\n

The album\u2019s exhilarating lead single, \u201cHead Is Like a Sinking Stone,\u201d arrives alongside a music video of tour footage shot by the band throughout the years and edited by Ricky Christian. Originating as a guitar riff written by their newest member Lebiecki and later completed by the band, Walsh noted the lyrics were inspired by a recurring dream from his childhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a kid, I had a strange recurring dream of jumping off the high dive at Nay Aug Park pool in Scranton, and after jumping in, time would just sort of freeze and I\u2019d just be stuck there underwater,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe premise was pretty terrifying, but the visual of sunshine reflecting on the ripples of water from the perspective of being beneath the surface was always kind of hauntingly beautiful. The chorus lyric sprung from a recollection of that dream and the rest followed. It serves as a kind of reminder to myself that beauty can be found in unexpected situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tigers Jaw also announced an all-ages album release show at Union Transfer<\/a> (1026 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia) on Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now via AXS<\/a>. \u201cLost on You\u201d is available for pre-order as well.<\/p>\n

Despite a person\u2019s deepest desires, time only continues to move forward, slowly and incessantly. People attempt to understand the present through our conceptions of the past, and they hope to use that understanding to guide the future. These simple chronological divisions offer them a simple way to organize their lives \u2013 where they\u2019ve been, where they are now, where they hope to be. Despite their connections, they feel disparate, always looking at one through the lens of another. On \u201cLost on You,\u201d Tigers Jaw poses a much more holistic idea \u2013 everyone exists in all of these timelines at once.<\/p>\n

With nearly five years since their last release, Walsh emphasized that the band \u201cwanted to feel confident in the material we have and let things progress naturally.\u201d And so they took their time finding what felt right, even though, of course, life continued on all around them. The result is a Tigers Jaw record as great as fans should expect. Songs like \u201cPrimary Colors\u201d and \u201cBaptized on a Redwood Drive\u201d find the group embracing a driving midtempo similar to alt rock heroes Jimmy Eat World or Weezer, with other tracks like \u201cHead Is Like a Sinking Stone\u201d and \u201cBREEZER\u201d feeling so classic that the best reference is Tigers Jaw themselves. They sing about blades and knives, anxieties and intentions, and timeless TJ topics like two worlds and ghosts.<\/p>\n

These songs are portals taking listeners between different parts of the band\u2019s life and even people\u2019s own lives, showing them how they can understand time not as a linear narrative but as something that is all real and knowable at once. They weren\u2019t able to get here without starting somewhere else \u2013 somewhere fans can instantly recognize and relate to. And while where they are going may still be unknown to listeners, they can see traces of it here already. It\u2019s uncertain but true, something they are constantly grappling with as time continues to inevitably pass. But there is beauty in it if they can accept it, finding contentment in just attempting to know themselves.<\/p>\n

As Collins sings on \u201cPrimary Colors,\u201d \u201cI understand it all now \/ It\u2019s not supposed to make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about Collins, Tigers Jaw, and their previous album, \u201cI Won\u2019t Care How You Remember Me,\u201d in Episode 204 of the NEPA Scene Podcast:<\/p>\n

Photo by Jason Riedmiller Photography<\/a>\/NEPA Scene<\/a><\/p>\n

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