Voxtrot will release a new album—their first in 18 years—on February 27, 2026. Released on their own Cult Hero label, the Austin, Texas, indie-rockers’ Dreamers in Exile is the long-overdue follow-up to their sole album to date, 2007’s self-titled, which followed a string of acclaimed singles and EPs in the mid-2000s. The band will tour behind the record next year. Check out the dates below, along with a new song, “Fighting Back,” which follows the 2023 comeback single “Another Fire” and comes with an Annie Gunn–directed video.
Voxtrot decided to make the new record on the last night of their 2023 reunion tour, a press release notes. They self-recorded the LP at bassist Jason Chronis’ Haunted Air Studio in Lockhart, Texas. The band’s Ramesh Srivastava said in a press release, “‘Fighting Back’ echoes the catchy propulsiveness of early Voxtrot, but my favorite element is the cornucopia of synths peppered throughout. Jason and I borrowed a Juno and went to town! I love the dark ’80s atmosphere, and whenever I hear it, I picture the crimson-lit bar scenes in American Gigolo, which were filmed at the Beverly Hills Hotel… where I distinctly remember the doorman shouting that I had 10 minutes to make my delivery before he was gonna tow my car.”
Gunn added of the video, “I’ve been collaborating with the band since the early 2000s on stills for album artwork. The visuals I’ve made for the band have always been in the analog black-and-white world so it felt fitting that the video for ‘Fighting Back’ also be shot on film. I wanted to bring some of the grainy, textural, imperfect nature of the stills we’ve done into motion. Peter Simonite as cinematographer brought his 1960s Super 8 camera, and we shot on different film stocks, embracing all the organic the fame lines, light leaks, grain, and imperfections we could. I hope the result feels like a moving collage of the band’s performance and I love how it ties into the visual world we’ve been creating for the last 20+ years.”
Dreamers in Exile:
01 Another Fire
02 Fighting Back
03 New World Romance
04 Dreamers in Exile
05 The Times
06 Esprit de Cœur
07 Quiet Noise
08 My Peace
09 Change
10 Rock & Roll Jesus
11 Babylone
Voxtrot:
03-25 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
03-26 Los Angeles, CA - Pacific Electric
03-27 Costa Mesa, CA - Constellation Room
03-28 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
03-30 Seattle, WA - Neumos
03-31 Portland, OR - Polaris Hall
04-02 Salt Lake City, UT - The Urban Lounge
04-03 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
04-05 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
04-06 Toronto, Ontario - The Great Hall
04-08 Philadelphia, PA - The Foundry
04-10 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
04-11 Washington, DC - The Atlantis
04-13 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall
04-14 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Hell)
04-15 Nashville, TN - The Basement East
04-17 Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Art Co
04-18 Austin, TX - Mohawk
