PLASTICSOUL and BIG STIR RECORDS are thrilled to announce a landmark release for the band and the label alike: the new album from the California power pop/indie/glam rock heroes: WE CAN HEAR YOU, CLEM FANDANGO. It's the group's first full-length record since their widely acclaimed 2017 album THERAPY, which was also the very first ever Big Stir Records release. Previewed by the hit indie single “J'adore” and the upcoming “Little Jewel,” the album leans more heavily than ever into the gritty glam rock sound while showcasing the hooks, wit and vocal firepower for which singer/songwriter/guitarist Steven Wilson is rightly renowned. The new album is out on Vinyl, CD, and all digital platforms worldwide on November 20 and it's up for preorder and presave now:

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“It’s a rock and roll album,” says Wilson of the album that he and the same, quintessential lineup of the band that delivered THERAPY (bassist Marc Bernal, drummer Steven Markowitz, guitarist Daniel Conrad and himself) have crafted over the past nine years, interrupted by a global pandemic and his own move from Los Angeles to Northern California while the rest of the band stayed put. “It is, for the most part, a lot of fun. The guitars are big, the vocal harmonies are rich, and the rhythm section holds the groove down so you can shake your rump. It’s an album that wants to be played loud, so turn it up.” The lead single and opening track “J'adore,” already a hit on global indie pop radio, bears that out. With its driving guitars, unforgettable “woo woo” vocal hook, ersatz French exclamations and let's-hit-the-town attitude, it's both an ideal introduction and a mission statement for PLASTICSOUL in 2026: the whole album rocks harder and leans further into the band's glitter rock roots than ever before.

The one-two punch of rockers at the album's start – “J'adore” followed by the irresistible, self-explanatory homage “(She's Got) The Move” – set up the stomping glam-forward framework that gives CLEM FANDANGO its shape. The record repeatedly returns to new and exciting variants on the down-and-dirty rock and roll sound with a vigor and chemistry that can only be accounted for by the fact that PLASTICSOUL has never been far from the live stage during the years since the last album, road-testing these tunes throughout California and the UK. You can hear it on the snarling extraterrestrial excursion “Dream Filter” (set to serve as the third single from the album) and a pair of blistering, pointed takedowns of some of modern culture's most toxic characters: the swinging “Virulent Rich Boys” and the blistering, album-closing “Eugenics Afterparty (aka The Dullard’s Cha-Cha)”.

With those tracks, CLEM FANDANGO can be said to contain some of most exciting melodic hard rock to grace the indie scene this year, but it has textures beyond that as well. Many of them follow Wilson's long-held thematic concerns: as a lyricist, he's always had a gift for the transcendently absurd, and the absurdly transcendent. Midway between “J'adore” with its celebration of the transformative power of rock (“Let your pride fall to the floor, dance Les Bouffons ‘til we’re sore”) and the sci-fi imagery of “Dream Filter” (“I had a dream about their big grey heads last night, they touched my head and gave me the second sight”) is the jangle-rock gem “Radio Spaceship.” It finds Wilson “longing for a great radio station with a killer DJ like the ones from my youth,” its harmonies and retro beat sounding ready-made for the the airwaves it imagines.

Equally striking is the absolutely gorgeous second single “Little Jewel,” which positively floats in a more stately, psychedelic fashion. The glitter's still there, along with the hooks, but this is unambiguously the lighters-up ballad of the album. Standing with the best arena singalongs in rock history from KISS to Oasis, it marks a departure from the currents of celebration and cynicism that alternate elsewhere in the album: it's a sweetly personal message of empowerment for the deeply challenging times we all face now. And it's not alone in that sense, as “Build My Invention” (which Wilson describes as “Plasticsoul doing Teenage Fanclub doing Neil Young”) urges listeners up a literal mountainside, and the pure pop rock of “You're So Money” echoes the hopeful anthems of the past, asking “Don’t you know you’re a superstar?” Wilson seems as surprised by the outpouring of positivity as anyone. “It’s very rare that I write positive affirmation songs. Strangest thing – on this album, we did three. When did I become so hopeful?”

Truthfully, though, there's hope at the core of everything that PLASTCSOUL does. While WE CAN HEAR YOU, CLEM FANDANGO is rife with moving moments and more than a little sly social commentary, it fundamentally takes the redemptive power of rock as its subject. And it repeatedly offers up – and in the process, celebrates – that primal, celebratory energy with rare generosity and sincerity. It just might be the best reminder you've heard all year of what rock and roll is really about. PLASTICSOUL is a band that seems to rock ever harder with age, but never loses sight of the melodic magic that's been there since the beginning. The new album, for all the years that went into its invention, is the purest and most cathartic expression of their unique and thrilling take on the form yet. Turn it up.

Expected release: November 20, 2026

Revered California indie rockers PLASTICSOUL, with their first new album in nearly a decade announced and on its way in November, offer up the next preview single from the album: “Little Jewel.” A soaring, psych-soaked ballad of empowerment and a change of pace from the full-on rock of their recent indie hit “J'adore,” it hints at the diversity displayed on the new album WE CAN HEAR YOU, CLEM FANDANGO and the creative peak the band has achieved in 2026. “Little Jewel” is out November 6 on all digital platforms worldwide and up for preorder and pre-save now:

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The indie rock world has waited nine years since PLASTICSOUL topped 2017 “Year's Best Album” lists with their third full-length record THERAPY, and while the new album WE CAN HEAR YOU, CLEM FANDANGO is still a month from release, fans have already been rewarded for their patience. The long-running quintessential lineup of the band (singer/songwriter/guitarist STEVEN WILSON, bassist Marc Bernal, drummer Steven Markowitz and guitarist Daniel Conrad) scored big and rocked hard last month with the first single from the album, “J'adore”, and its giddy guitar pop tones are still ringing all over the global indie airwaves. But where that track, like much of the new album, leaned hard into greasy glam rock abandon, the new single “Little Jewel” floats in a more stately, psychedelic fashion. The glitter's still there along with the hooks, but this is, for lack of a better description, the lighters-up ballad of the album and it stands with the best arena singalongs in rock history and, atypically but brilliantly, a message of empowerment for the deeply challenging times we all face now.

“Life is not always kind. Life, like Lynn Anderson, never promised us a rose garden,” Wilson says of the song's intent. “Hold on to each other tightly, adapt, emit a primal scream if it helps, and keep moving on from where you are.” You can hear that he means it as his powerful voice rises and falls in a wonderful melody for the ages, with churning guitars, pounding drums and walls of pristine harmony underpinning it all: “It’s okay if you want to change your shape... I can relate because I made the same mistakes.” The sentiment stands out on album full of celebratory boogie rock bangers and snarky, sharply-observed social satire, but it's not alone, as Wilson notes. “It’s very rare that I write positive affirmation songs. Strangest thing – on this album we did two, 'Build My Invention' and 'You're So Money'. In retrospect this one might be the third! When did I become so hopeful?”

That might be a clue as to what makes the new album such a cathartic, coherent and rewarding experience: everything here is one form or another of screaming into the void, whether it be an attempt to rescue a friend as we have here, a withering putdown of the negative creeps in the world, or a declaration that rock and roll still has redemptive power to spare. PLASTICSOUL brings that power to bear again and again on the new record, drenched in the sheer rock majesty for which they are rightly known. You'll hear it when you hear WE CAN HEAR YOU, CLEM FANDANGO, loud and clear and absolutely killer. The album is out November 20 on Vinyl, CD and Streaming from Big Stir Records and up for pre-order and pre-save now.

Expected release: November 6, 2026