Boy Harsher have formally introduced their new album, GET MEAN, set to reach this fall alongside a cinematic video for its lead single “Onerous Beat.” The brand new track and visible give listeners a primary style of the album’s darkish, deeply private themes – of grief and renewal. Collectively, the upcoming report, the lead single’s video, and a full slate of North American tour dates mark an thrilling new chapter for the digital duo.
A press launch from Boy Harsher’s staff introduced that their upcoming album GET MEAN is due September 18th by way of Atlantic Data.
GET MEAN is a meditation on love, loss, and survival. Throughout the report, Boy Harsher, the duo of Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, confronts grief and heartbreak head-on, tracing the tough technique of shifting via loss and discovering a path towards renewal. At its core, GET MEAN is a redemption album – a doc of considered one of life’s most painful chapters and the energy discovered on the opposite aspect of it.
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Alongside the album announcement, Boy Harsher shares the brand new single and music video “Onerous Beat.” The music video was directed by Boy Harsher with cinematographer Owen Smith-Clark and explores themes of surveillance, deviance, and trauma with affect from Helmut Newton’s 1995 “Excessive and Mighty” characteristic and the queer punk of Greg Araki’s movies. The video sees a pair of freaky deviants, performed by Cheeky Ma and Mo Stark, rushing down an uncanny freeway in a classic Cadillac. Matthews, in a funeral veil, narrates from the backseat. In the meantime, a girl in a leg brace, performed by Angel Zinovieff, is being recorded on closed circuit in a windowless tiled room. The motion within the video was choreographed by efficiency artist Monica Mirabile (FLUCT).
In early 2024, following years of more and more well-received releases, a mounting collection of bold collaborations and cross-genre experiments, and in depth stretches of worldwide touring to sold-out crowds, Boy Harsher confronted essentially the most profound check of its existence: the top of its members’ relationship. Within the wake of the breakup, which arrived on the heels of a interval of non-public turmoil, familial loss, and inventive block, the way forward for the band was mired in uncertainty and the notion of recent music impossibly distant. It wasn’t till Matthews hit the street – sounding out her shifting id and staring down the loneliness beneath the skies of West Texas, the Pacific Northwest, South Florida and factors in-between, over and underneath, and off the map fully – that the writing of a brand new Boy Harsher report started in earnest, one born of rootlessness and sure up in seemingly insoluble questions. What occurs when a band that’s been solid in intimacy, cloaked within the sonic textures of darkly swooning electronics, and devoted to plumbing the complicated and contradictory depths of romantic feeling falls aside? What’s left after grief takes all the things? What does a breakup album seem like for a band as singular as Boy Harsher?
The result’s GET MEAN: twelve tracks of glittering edges and weary voluptuousness, diamond-dense instrumentals and vaporous vocals, a doc of ache, dislocation, and redemption as solely Muller and Matthews can ship it. However the place earlier Boy Harsher releases have drawn on the duo’s predilections for classical synth textures and nakedly confessional lyrics to craft a signature sound mired in darkness and transgression, GET MEAN brings many new shades to the sonic palette: from softy detuned pads and noisily squelching results in pedal metal pitchbends, from brash percussive in-jokes to unadorned cellphone voice notes, from the driving coldwave beats which have lengthy anchored the band’s sound, to New Romantic guitar textures and archly cheeky pop strikes. It’s a brand new assertion of objective for a band with full command of its instrumental arsenal and a maturing – if no much less ravenous – aesthetic sense.
Watch the video for “Onerous Beat”, one of many songs in GET MEAN:
GET MEAN stomps out the parameters of its bespoke musical universe, staking an unapologetic declare for brand spanking new musical relationships on the extent of type and style even because it hints at new potentialities on the extent of the deeply private. The primary single “Denims,” takes tongue-in-cheek goal at canonically Americana-fied themes of self-actualization and success, updating “Proud Mary” and Brat Pack signifiers for the period of gigwork alienation and nationwide decline (“THAT’S LIFE / LIVING IN A SMALL TOWN / GAVE IT ALL UP / JUST TO SELL JEANS”).
In contemplating the genesis of GET MEAN, Matthews describes it as “what I needed to give throughout essentially the most excessive interval of my life.” And little doubt – the novel destabilization, the all-consuming doubt, the determined drive to flee, all of those qualities are palpable on a report as transportive and multitextured as this. It’s not for nothing, in spite of everything, that GET MEANis Boy Harsher’s “street album,” one recorded in eight areas throughout the USA and thru to Mexico and Italy such that the listener can really feel the Florida scrub, the icy Northwest rivers, the grit of the freeway rumble strip. There’s additionally one thing else, although, a sense no much less drawn from ache and confusion however given new life throughout an album that mourns, begs, jokes, and flirts its method out of the dislocation, out of the rootlessness and alienation and thru to a spot of abandon, of purification, of dancefloor catharsis. It’s like Matthews tells us in “Onerous Beat,” careening within the inimitable Boy Harsher trend between confession, exhortation, and proud self-reclamation: not simply “I FEEL HIGH / WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE LOW,” but in addition—“LET’S MAKE IT REAL.”
Following the album launch, Boy Harsher will probably be heading on their North American headline fall tour. The tour kicks off in Hudson on September twenty fifth and travels via Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New Orleans and extra earlier than concluding at New York’s Knockdown Middle. Boy Harsher can have help from Choir Boy, Evanora Limitless, True Blue, and Kassie Krut on choose dates.
Since forming in 2014, Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller have cultivated considered one of underground music’s most devoted followings as Boy Harsher. Their first EP Lesser Man, which incorporates the underground hit “Ache,” was initially launched on a small run of cassettes, however then uploaded by a fan onto YouTube. They continued momentum with their Yr Physique is Nothing LP in 2016 and Nation Lady EP in 2017, which result in their acclaimed 2019 album Cautious and the 2022 album and movie The Runner, which the duo wrote, produced, and scored. Boy Harsher have regularly expanded the chances of darkwave, industrial, and digital music. Their signature mix of hypnotic synths, propulsive rhythms, and Matthews’ magnetic vocals has influenced a brand new era of artists whereas serving to carry minimal synth, EBM, and darkish digital music from underground golf equipment to competition levels around the globe.
Past the music, Boy Harsher continues to develop their cinematic ambitions. They’re at present at work on their debut characteristic movie, The Lonely Girl, starring Chloë Sevigny, FKA twigs, and Sturgill Simpson.
Pre-order / save GET MEAN and take a look at “Onerous Beat” above and discover album particulars and the complete tour routing under.
Boy Harsher | GET MEAN | September 18, 2026 | Atlantic Data
1. Ronny
2. Denims
3. Break Me
4. Powerful Luck (When You Don’t Name)
5. Defective
6. Coming Residence
7. Onerous Beat
8. Ice Choose (Stroll Away)
9. Ivy’s Spiral
10. Pray 4 Me
11. Falling ~
12. Bleed
Boy Harsher Upcoming Dwell Dates
*= competition date
^= supporting TURNSTILE
9/25 – Hudson, NY @ Basilica
9/27 – Boston, MA @ Royale
9/29 – Montreal, QC @ M Telus
9/30 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Corridor
10/01 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic
10/02 – Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT
10/03 – Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT
10/04 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
10/06 – Denver, CO @ Summit
10/09 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Corridor SOLD OUT
10/10 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Corridor SOLD OUT
10/11 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox SOLD OUT
10/12 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
10/13 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl SOLD OUT
10/15 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
10/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium SOLD OUT
10/17 – Del Mar, CA @ The Sound
10/18 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory Competition Grounds^ SOLD OUT
10/20 – Las Vegas, NV @ Home of Blues
10/21 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren
10/24 – Fort Price, TX @ Sick New World*
10/26 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic
10/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Selection Playhouse
10/28 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
10/30 – Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
10/31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Making Time*
11/05 – New York, NY @ Knockdown Middle