NEW FOUND GLORY Announces 'Listen Up!' Album, Shares 'Laugh It Off' Single
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NEW FOUND GLORY will release a new album, "Listen Up!", on February 20, 2026. The band's first full-length in nearly six years and their first since signing to Pure Noise Records earlier this year, "Listen Up!" is a collection of songs about resilience and hope through hard times.
About "Listen Up!", NEW FOUND GLORY shares: "The overall message/theme of this album is to encourage hope through hard times, while also looking at the world as somewhat of a fly on a wall: seeing people's fear, negativity, and stress about small things that only scratch the surface of what life will eventually — but bring in a hopeful way. We want to encourage hope that the hard times will bring growth and strength. So the music is super fun and anthemic and loose feeling. We're singing loud and proud about the scars and not in a pity party sort of way."
The band continues: "There's also a lot of reflection. We're looking back at the good ol' days as reminders of all we've been through in life that led us to the people we are today. Sonically the album has that juxtaposition too. It's fun pop melodies mixed with the heavier, riffed songs."
In addition to announcing the new record, NEW FOUND GLORY has shared its latest single and music video, "Laugh It Off". Watch it here.
"This is an upbeat song based around this lead riff that recurs throughout, while the lyrics are about being on each other's case in a relationship at times. But you get so lost in the debate that you have to stop and laugh," the band says. "The connection is so deep that you always end up acknowledging that it was a silly argument. And you always end up laughing, especially in the middle of the argument when someone pronounces something wrong or says something backwards. Life's too short to get hung up on the little passing things."
NEW FOUND GLORY recently wrapped up the "Supercharged: Worldwide In '25" tour with THE OFFSPRING and JIMMY EAT WORLD. They'll be back on the road next month, performing at the Epcot International Food And Wine Festival before a series of U.K. headline shows featuring REAL FRIENDS and KOYO. The band will also travel to Australia later this year for Good Things festival, and next year fans in Indonesia can catch them at Hammersonic 2026.
It's been decades since NEW FOUND GLORY's likeness was chiseled onto pop-punk's Mount Rushmore, but as the quartet, formed in Coral Springs, Florida, in 1997, approach their landmark 30th anniversary, they still have a lot to say.
"We wanted to make something that really focused on how lucky we are," NEW FOUND GLORY guitarist Chad Gilbert explains of "Listen Up!", the band's eleventh studio album and first release for Pure Noise Records. "We've all gone through serious stuff in our lives, and I think the lyrics on this record are more meaningful and purposeful than ever. It's a positive outlet that hopefully keeps people going."
The album's spirit is indeed a testament to resilience, shaped not only by Gilbert's ongoing battle with an aggressive metastatic cancer but also the ever-evolving dynamic between him and his bandmates — vocalist Jordan Pundik, bassist Ian Grushka and drummer Cyrus Bolooki — as they continue to push each other creatively. It's the same full-hearted sentiment that colored their 2023 acoustic EP, "Make The Most Of It", here delivered in three-minute bursts of the band's trademark pop-punk sound: the shiny melodies that launched them on to "TRL" in the early 2000s, the ghosts of the tight-knit punk and hardcore scenes they came up in as teenagers.
That kinetic energy informed "Listen Up!" from its earliest stages of the writing process, with Bolooki and Grushka traveling to Gilbert's Nashville-area home to flesh out the songs the guitarist had been crafting. Sitting face to face with their instruments, the three fell into a rhythm of workshopping and arranging together, leaning into a riff-first mentality that harkened back to iconic songs like "My Friends Over You" and "All Downhill From Here" in what Bolooki calls a musical return to form.
"Listen Up!" track listing:
01. Boom Roasted
02. 100%
03. Laugh It Off
04. A Love Song
05. Beer and Blood Stains
06. Medicine
07. Treat Yourself
08. Dream Born Again
09. You Got This
10. Frankenstein's Monster
