Nation of Language Share New Music “Below the Water”
Dance Known as Reminiscence Due Out September 19 by way of Sub Pop
Jul 22, 2025
Images by Ebru Yildiz
Synth-pop trio Nation of Language are releasing a brand new album, Dance Known as Reminiscence, on September 19 by way of Sub Pop. Now they’ve shared its third single, “Below the Water.” Pay attention under.
The Brooklyn-based band options Ian Richard Devaney (lead vocals, guitar), Aidan Noell (synthesizer), and Alex MacKay (bass guitar).
Devaney had this to say in regards to the new single in a press launch: “This was the final one to make the minimize earlier than we turned the file in. We’d all the time had plenty of enthusiasm for the observe, however the studio schedule had gotten a bit unwieldy over the vacations and an arbitrary deadline had been set to be performed with LP4 previous to leaving for a January tour in Australia supporting IDLES. As such we’d turned within the ultimate album mixes for mastering earlier than getting on the aircraft and I’d resigned myself to saving ‘Below the Water’ for some subsequent launch down the road. However someplace over the Pacific Ocean whereas making an attempt to sequence the album readability set in that regardless of our love for inflexible adherence to the manufacturing calendar, we needed it on there. So earlier than soundchecks on the opposite facet of the planet we attached all of the synths we’d introduced with us within the greenroom, remotely concocting the model you hear now. If it in some way sounds distinctly of the southern hemisphere, now you’ll all know why.”
The album consists of “Inept Apollo,” a brand new music the band shared in Might once they introduced they had been signing to Sub Pop. It was considered one of our Songs of the Week. When the album was introduced she shared a brand new music from it, “I’m Not Prepared For the Change,” by way of a music video. It was additionally considered one of our Songs of the Week.
Nation of Language’s final album, Unusual Disciple, was launched in 2023 by way of [PIAS]. It was considered one of our High 100 Albums of 2023. Unusual Disciple was the band’s third album and the follow-up to 2021’s A Method Ahead and 2020’s Introduction, Presence.
Nick Millhiser (LCD Soundsystem, Holy Ghost!), who produced Unusual Disciple, as soon as once more labored with the band on Dance Known as Reminiscence.
“What’s so nice about Nick is his skill to make us really feel like we don’t must do what is likely to be anticipated of us,” says Noell in a press launch.
Of the brand new album, Devaney says: “There’s a dichotomy between the Kraftwerk faculty of thought and the Brian Eno faculty of thought, every of which I’ve been drawn to at totally different factors. I’ve examine how Kraftwerk needed to take away all the humanity from their music, however Eno typically spoke about desirous to make synthesized music that felt distinctly human. As a lot as Kraftwerk is a sonically foundational affect, with this file I leaned rather more in direction of the Eno faculty of thought. On this period shortly being outlined by the rise of AI supplanting human creators I’m focusing extra on the human situation, and I want the underlying music to assist that… As an alternative of hopelessness, I need to depart the listener with a sense of us actually seeing each other, that our particular person struggles can truly unite us in empathy.”
Learn our interview with Nation of Language on A Method Ahead.
Nation of Language additionally took half in our twentieth anniversary Covers of Covers album, the place they coated Damaged Social Scene’s “Stars and Sons.”
