If you’ve been waiting for Tigers Jaw to re-emerge with something special, today is the day. The band have officially announced their new album Lost on You, arriving 27th March via Hopeless Records, and they’ve kicked things off with a single that feels like sinking into a dream you half-remember from years ago. It’s been five years since their last record, but the second you hit play, it’s clear the wait has only sharpened what they do best.
Head is Like a Sinking Stone arrives with that unmistakable Tigers Jaw warmth — the kind that feels nostalgic even on the first listen. It started life as a guitar riff from their newest member, Mark Lebiecki, before the rest of the band filled it out into something heartfelt and strangely cinematic. Ben Walsh shared that the lyrics were inspired by a recurring childhood dream: jumping off a high dive, hitting the water, and suddenly finding time frozen around him. Terrifying on paper, maybe, but the way he describes the sunlight rippling through the water actually sounds… kind of beautiful. And honestly, that’s the perfect way to describe the song too.
The video is built from years of tour footage, stitched together into a montage that feels like flipping through a scrapbook of the band’s life. It’s edited by Ricky Christian and serves as a reminder of just how long Tigers Jaw have been carving out their place in the scene — and how many memories they’ve carried with them into this new album.
Lost on You was recorded with their longtime collaborator Will Yip at Studio 4 in Philadelphia, and you can absolutely hear that comfortable chemistry. The whole project leans into a natural, lived-in energy, the kind you only get from a band who know exactly who they are and aren’t in a rush to force anything. Tracks like Primary Colors and Baptized on a Redwood Drive tap into that midtempo alt-rock sweetness that fans of Jimmy Eat World or Weezer are going to eat up, while songs like BREEZER and Head is Like a Sinking Stone feel so iconically Tigers Jaw that you could pick them out of a playlist blindfolded.
The album explores time in a pretty interesting way — not as something linear, but as something we’re always experiencing all at once. Anyone who has ever listened to Tigers Jaw knows this is territory they handle really well. Their music has always felt like it lives somewhere between past and present, a little nostalgic but never stuck. They’re singing about blades and ghosts and anxieties and all the little emotional glitches that make you human, yet there’s a real optimism tucked underneath it. As Brianna Collins sings on Primary Colors, “I understand it all now / It’s not supposed to make sense.” Honestly…the older you get, the more that line feels like the truest thing in the world.
They’ve also announced an album release show at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer on 16th April, and if the new single is anything to go by, it’s going to feel like a celebration of every version of the band — past, present, and future — all happening at once.
If this is just the first taste of Lost on You, then March can’t come soon enough.
