Oklahoma City’s Mad Honey have officially crossed the bridge. The OKC shoegaze quintet’s long-anticipated sophomore album, Bridge Over Cumberland, is out today via Deathwish Inc. and Sunday Drive Records — and it might just be the most quietly devastating thing you’ll hear all year.

Across eleven lush tracks, Mad Honey trade in the kind of cosmic, billowing slowcore that demands you roll down the windows and stare at a horizon you can’t quite name. It’s the band’s most collaborative effort to date, anchored by lead vocalist Tuff Sutcliffe’s shadowy lyricism and a production approach that lets every reverb-soaked guitar swell breathe.

“The album is sequenced like a road trip through the south, staring out the window, contemplating the past, and speeding forward towards an uncertain future,” guitarist Lennon Bramlett says. “It’s about reflection, finding your way back to yourself, and reclaiming your life.”

That thematic through-line — the slow ache of platonic and romantic connections fraying at the edges — surfaces immediately on opener “I Am a Wall, I Am a House” and runs all the way through to the gentle piano denouement of the title track. Along the way, Sutcliffe and company examine codependency on the back-to-back gut-punch of “Somehow” and “Past Together Isn’t Presence,” the inauspicious timing of fading friendships on “James Gets His Rose,” and what Bramlett calls the album’s thesis statement, “Moshfeghian.”

“‘Moshfeghian’ feels like the thesis statement of the whole record,” Lennon explains. “It gets to the core of what we’re exploring: nostalgia, change, and the desire to hold on while letting go. Writing it helped us clarify the themes that run through all 11 tracks, and it’s the song that most fully captures the spirit and energy of BOC.”

The early singles “Reaching” and “Marie’s Song” earned the band praise from Stereogum, which called “Marie’s Song” “a soft, longing slowcore lullaby with some absolutely shattering vocals from bandleader Tuff Sutcliffe.” That feels about right. By the time the closing title track lands — Sutcliffe pondering whether her dreams live in the Tennessee hills or the Oklahoma plains, burning bridges while keeping the pedestrian moments that define us — Bridge Over Cumberland reveals itself as a record about reinvention winning out over self-destruction.

Stream Bridge Over Cumberland on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/search/Mad%20Honey%20Bridge%20Over%20Cumberland

Mad Honey, a fixture of the prolific OKC scene who’ve shared stages with Hotline TNT, Shallowater, and Dummy, will celebrate the release with a hometown show on May 29 at The 51st Speakeasy in Oklahoma City, with support from Charlotte Bumgarner.

MAD HONEY LIVE 2026
May 29 — The 51st Speakeasy — Oklahoma City, OK

Bridge Over Cumberland Tracklist:
1. I Am a Wall, I Am a House
2. James Gets His Rose
3. Reaching
4. Somehow
5. Past Together Isn’t Presence
6. Natchez Trace Parkway
7. Moshfeghian
8. Marie’s Song
9. Leiper’s Fork
10. Twelve Boyfriends
11. Bridge Over Cumberland

Follow Mad Honey on Instagram at @madhoneyband for tour updates, and do yourself a favor: put Bridge Over Cumberland on, get in the car, and drive somewhere you’ve been avoiding.