Nation of Language Share New Tune “Underneath the Water”
Dance Referred to as Reminiscence Due Out September 19 by way of Sub Pop
Jul 22, 2025
Pictures by Ebru Yildiz
Synth-pop trio Nation of Language are releasing a brand new album, Dance Referred to as Reminiscence, on September 19 by way of Sub Pop. Now they’ve shared its third single, “Underneath the Water.” Hear 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 reduce earlier than we turned the file in. We’d at all times 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 achieved with LP4 previous to leaving for a January tour in Australia supporting IDLES. As such we’d turned within the remaining album mixes for mastering earlier than getting on the aircraft and I’d resigned myself to saving ‘Underneath the Water’ for some subsequent launch down the road. However someplace over the Pacific Ocean whereas attempting 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 Could once they introduced they have 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 Referred to as Reminiscence.
“What’s so nice about Nick is his capacity to make us really feel like we don’t have to do what could be anticipated of us,” says Noell in a press launch.
Of the brand new album, Devaney says: “There’s a dichotomy between the Kraftwerk college of thought and the Brian Eno college of thought, every of which I’ve been drawn to at completely different factors. I’ve examine how Kraftwerk needed to take away the entire humanity from their music, however Eno typically spoke about eager to make synthesized music that felt distinctly human. As a lot as Kraftwerk is a sonically foundational affect, with this file I leaned way more in direction of the Eno college of thought. On this period rapidly being outlined by the rise of AI supplanting human creators I’m focusing extra on the human situation, and I would like the underlying music to assist that… As a substitute 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.”
