The new collection of songs from the Brooklyn-born band explores the illusions that comprise our reality and “what remains when the stories we’ve built our lives around begin to fall apart”

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Perhaps as a reaction to the ultimate mortality-driven mystery—the inevitable, unknowable end—humans are allergic to uncertainty. Rather than accept anything unknown, we insist on explanations. And when we can’t find them, we make up our own meanings. Or blindly accept the answers that we’re offered.

These are the stories we tell each other and ourselves: sneaky myths that shape our societies, and our realities, taking the form of laws, religions, customs and coping mechanisms.

They’re deeply rooted, but they’re not rooted in anything real. These flimsy fictions make for a fragile framework, and when the wind blows just right, it can all come crashing down.

It’s the reckoning with this wreckage that serves as the premise of the new album from Brooklyn-turned-bicoastal band New Myths—a sophomore LP that arrives via Substitute Scene Records 12 years after their first full-length and 14 after their debut EP (one that caught the ear and approval of the late Lou Reed, who featured a track on his XM Radio Show).

Now, I couldn’t be more stoked to share the new album. From New Myths, this is When I Say Go.

New Myths is the killer combo that is Brit Boras (guitar/lead vocals), Rosie Slater (drums/vocals) and Marina Ross (bass/vocals). Of their new record, the trio shares:

“This album lives in the space where certainty begins to unravel. As a band, and simply as people trying to exist in this moment, that’s something we’re all navigating every day. Each song explores a different kind of illusion: false memories, anxious thoughts, unhealthy relationships, inherited beliefs, emotional avoidance, and manufactured realities. Ultimately, the album asks what remains when the stories we’ve built our lives around begin to fall apart. It’s a collection about searching for truth in a world that constantly offers easier lies.”

A song could be considered a story unto itself, and to accompany the premiere, Brit, Marina and Rosie shared some insight on each of the album’s nine tracks, which incoporate modern concepts (think ghosting and MAGA face) and emotional tales as old as time.

When I Say Go—TRACK BY TRACK:

“Insanity” 

“…takes a blunt look at today’s political climate, where blind loyalty is mistaken for critical thinking and confidence is treated like proof. It calls out leadership built on rehearsed sincerity, over-the-top certainty, and a refusal to admit the chaos underneath.”

“Time Bomb” 

“…captures the jittery buzz of being around someone emotionally unstable. They move through the world with a mask of robotic indifference, handing out flat, mechanical stares while their inner gears grind louder and louder. You’re given absolutely nothing to work with… and yet somehow, you can still hear the countdown ticking in the background.”

“Fade Out” 

“…tackles ghosting in its ugliest and slowest form, what New Myths call ‘doing the fade out.’ Like the track itself, the relationship slowly fizzles out like a light on a slow dimmer switch. Quietly evaporating from your life one tiny, inconvenient step at a time.” 

“One Good Reason” 

“…is about questioning a life that asks for quiet female obedience in exchange for belonging. It’s about questioning whether to keep kissing the wound, covering your eyes, and echoing words that were never your own.”

“Fever Dream” 

“…drifts through the strange logic of a mind caught somewhere between memory and illusion. The further you chase what you’ve already lost, the more the world starts feeding you false certainty. Every coincidence feels like a sign, every revelation feels cosmic, until you realize you’ve been following your own reflection the whole time.”

“Bad Connection” 

“…explores the kind of darkness that doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in quietly, twisting your thoughts until they sound more convincing than reality. The song portrays that voice as some sort of disease, spreading through fear, self-doubt, and the quiet moments where it’s easiest to lose yourself.”

“Black Hole” 

“…is about the ways we try to outrun ourselves. It follows someone staring outward so they never have to look in. The song paints a world where reality feels artificial and overstimulating, like a video game designed to keep you moving so you never have to stop and confront the noise in your head. At its core, ‘Black Hole’ is about searching everywhere else but inside for relief.”

 “Living Doll”

“…is a tongue-in-cheek, but barbed criticism of America’s materialist culture as well as the elevation by some parts of American culture of submissive and ‘plastic’ women as the ideal model of femininity.”

“When I Say Go” 

“…is about meeting someone who feels like the opposite of everything you’ve ever known. Being with them becomes a brief escape from the weight of being yourself. Drowning in your own perspective, you begin to crave theirs to be carried somewhere beyond the confines of your own mind.”

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While this album sees the artists exploring serious subject matter, the music makes the emotional and the intellectual feel physical, and listening to the songs themselves kind of makes me want to… fight?

Maybe it’s that a female trio automatically makes me think of Josie and the Pussycats or Charlie’s Angels (I’m a millennial! I’m sorry!), but it’s 2026 and New Myths are the new-wave heroes we need. A sort of… power-pop Powerpuff Girls. And with mics and instruments wielded as weapons against all sorts of evils, they’re offering us all an ass-kicking soundtrack—the energy and the confidence we need to combat the very issues, insecurities and injustices they’re taking on with their songs. The courage to analyze the stories, recognize the lies and finally face the truth.

Don’t miss New Myths live (an increasingly rare experience with 1/3 of the band now living in LA!) when they hit the Main Drag stage this Saturday to celebrate their album with a fanged femme lineup that includes Firstsex, Frida Kills and Shadow Monster.Grab tix here!

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Follow New Myths at @newmyths, grab music on bandcamp and add the songs to your Spotify playlists now!

Feature image (provided by the band):  John Clouse