Scranton indie rockers Tigers Jaw announce 2026 album, release single ‘Head Is Like a Sinking Stone’
From a press release:
Today, Tigers Jaw released their first new music in over four years – a song titled “Head Is Like a Sinking Stone” – and announced a new full-length album, “Lost on You,” is coming on March 27, 2026 via Hopeless Records.
Their seventh record and follow-up to their critically-acclaimed 2021 LP “I Won’t Care How You Remember Me” was produced/engineered by their longtime collaborator Will Yip (The Menzingers, Title Fight, Turnstile, Movements) at his famed Studio 4 in Conshohocken and captures the energy and spirit of the live show the Scranton indie rock quintet – Ben Walsh (guitar, vocals), Brianna Collins (keys, vocals), Mark Lebiecki (guitar), Colin Gorman (bass), and Teddy Roberts (drums) – is known for.
The album’s exhilarating lead single, “Head Is Like a Sinking Stone,” 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.
“When 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’d just be stuck there underwater,” he recalled.
“The 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.”
Tigers Jaw also announced an all-ages album release show at Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia) on Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now via AXS. “Lost on You” is available for pre-order as well.
Despite a person’s 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 – where they’ve 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 “Lost on You,” Tigers Jaw poses a much more holistic idea – everyone exists in all of these timelines at once.
With nearly five years since their last release, Walsh emphasized that the band “wanted to feel confident in the material we have and let things progress naturally.” 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 “Primary Colors” and “Baptized on a Redwood Drive” find the group embracing a driving midtempo similar to alt rock heroes Jimmy Eat World or Weezer, with other tracks like “Head Is Like a Sinking Stone” and “BREEZER” 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.
These songs are portals taking listeners between different parts of the band’s life and even people’s 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’t able to get here without starting somewhere else – 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’s 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.
As Collins sings on “Primary Colors,” “I understand it all now / It’s not supposed to make sense.”
Learn more about Collins, Tigers Jaw, and their previous album, “I Won’t Care How You Remember Me,” in Episode 204 of the NEPA Scene Podcast:
Photo by Jason Riedmiller Photography/NEPA Scene
