Voxtrot will release a new album—their first in 18 years—on February 27, 2026. Released on their own Cult Hero label, the Austin 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 their 2023 comeback single “Another Fire” and comes with an Annie Gunn–directed video.
The band 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 says 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 ten minutes to make my delivery before he was gonna tow my car.”
Gunn adds 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 super8 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.”
