In early December 2025, Noah Kahan began to tease his next album, currently thought to be titled The Last of The Bugs. Since then, there has been a trail of clues left by the “Stick Season” singer; here’s a comprehensive timeline of everything we know here at Melodic Mag.
On December 2, 2025, Kahan teased a TikTok page, entitled @thelastofthebugs, with a link to follow the page in his Instagram Bio. At the time, there was only one video posted showing Kahan standing in the snow with the text “you weren’t supposed to find this…only the last of the bugs ever do” overtop. Additionally, the sound on the video was a snippet of what fans presume to be a section of a new song on the album.
@thelastofthebugsAir in my lungs ’til the road begins…
The following day, the singer went on live and announced that the album was ready. With that, he also expressed that he “really appreciate[s] your patience, [he’s] not allowed to say when it’s coming out or anything like that,” but that “it’ll be worth the time [we] have been waiting.”
Then, two days later, on December 5, Kahan posted another video to the TikTok page showing him with a teasing expression, utilizing a soundclip that features the lyrics “as the last of the bugs leave their homes again” from his song “The View Between Villages” with the caption “Call me when the bugs don’t die.” It is at this point that fans began to heavily speculate an early Spring album release date, aka, the time of year when all bugs return to nature.
Over a week later, on December 15th, another video was posted to @thelastofthebugs on TikTok; however, this time the video was an audio file of a song seemingly titled “Porch Light” from the new album, with the caption “Heard there was a banjo recession.” Some of the lyrics featured include “I ain’t holding breath, I ain’t holding any faith at all.”
Most notably, Kahan kicked off the new year and celebrated his birthday by sharing an image of a handwritten letter to the TikTok page with the caption “don’t forget to wish me a happy bday.” To add to this, he uses the official soundbite of a song he teased much earlier in 2025 entitled “The Great Divide.”
On Instagram, the singer has been much quieter, occasionally sharing cryptic things on his story, including one post on December 22nd of a selfie of him with the words “BTW ANYONE WORRIED THAT THEY’VE HEARD THE ALBUM THRU THE SONGS I’VE TEASED HAS U AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET.”
Then, on January 14th, Kahan posted a Reel of a montage of footage from the process of recording the new album to music from “The Great Divide.” The video has the words “only the last of the bugs can hear this,” and the caption reads “You inched yourself across the great divide.” He then shared this Reel to his story with a link to pre-save the new album and added this link to his Instagram bio as well.
Despite his relatively mysterious messaging on social media, Kahan has been sharing much of his new work at live shows including performances of “Porch Light,” “The Great Divide,’” “All Them Horses,” “Deny, Deny, Deny,” and many others. Most recently, he debuted “Haircut” at Out of the Blue Fest
There is still no official release date known, but fan theories of an early Spring/March album are strong, given the singer’s mention of “coming out of hibernation,” and early Spring being when the last of the bugs come out of hibernation and leave their homes.
This year, Spring begins on March 20th, and with that being a Friday, it could serve as the perfect day to release an album. However, no matter when the release is, we’re sure that it will be put out exactly when Kahan and his team feel the time is right, and we do not doubt that it will have been well worth the wait.
Fans can pre-save Kahan’s upcoming album, here.
Keep up with Noah Kahan: Instagram // TikTok // lastofthebugs // Website
