New Found Glory announced their highly anticipated new album Listen Up! will arrive on February 20, 2026. The record is the band’s first full-length effort in nearly 6 years and the first since signing to Pure Noise Records earlier this year.
Listen Up! Is available for pre-order here.
The new record is a collection of songs about resilience and hope through hard times shaped by guitarist Chad Gilbert’s ongoing battle with metastatic cancer and the pop-punk veterans’ evolving dynamic as a group. New Found Glory shares,
“The overall message/theme of this album is to encourage hope through hard times, while also looking at the world as somewhat of a fly on a wall: seeing people’s fear, negativity, and stress about small things that only scratch the surface of what life will eventually – but bring in a hopeful way. We want to encourage hope that the hard times will bring growth and strength. So the music is super fun and anthemic and loose feeling. We’re singing loud and proud about the scars and not in a pity party sort of way.
There’s also a lot of reflection. We’re looking back at the good ol’ days as reminders of all we’ve been through in life that led us to the people we are today. Sonically the album has that juxtaposition too. It’s fun pop melodies mixed with the heavier, riffed songs.”
The announcement comes alongside the release of their anthemic new single “Laugh It Off,” which sees New Found Glory head in a darker, heavier direction. Speaking on the new track, the band shares,
“This is an upbeat song based around this lead riff that recurs throughout, while the lyrics are about being on each other’s case in a relationship at times. But you get so lost in the debate that you have to stop and laugh. The connection is so deep that you always end up acknowledging that it was a silly argument. And you always end up laughing, especially in the middle of the argument when someone pronounces something wrong or says something backwards. Life’s too short to get hung up on the little passing things.”
New Found Glory will be performing at Epcot International Food and Wine Festival this weekend before heading to the UK for a string of headline shows with Real Friends and Koyo as support. The band will be making festival appearances at Good Things Festival in Australia and Hammersonic 2026 in Indonesia. Tickets and information for all of New Found Glory’s upcoming shows can be found here.
Listen Up! Tracklist
1. Boom Roasted
2. 100%
3. Laugh It Off
4. A Love Song
5. Beer and Blood Stains
6. Medicine
7. Treat Yourself
8. Dream Born Again
9. You Got This
10. Frankenstein’s Monster
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