Patience, as it turns out, is a virtue that pays dividends. After a decade of quiet — punctuated only by whispered fan-to-fan recommendations and last month’s expanded reissue of their 2015 debut Skin Gets Hot — New York’s Fraternal Twin have finally announced their long-awaited third album. Halo Fell Forever arrives September 4, 2026, and if lead single “Solitude” is any indication, songwriter Tom Christie hasn’t just returned. He’s rebuilt the whole project from the studs.

“Solitude” is out today, ushered in by an official music video directed by Ben Correa and produced by Nigel Truesdale. It’s a fitting opener — brightly toned guitars unspooling around riffs that linger in insular territory, with Christie wandering hotel rooms and empty hallways in a haze of quiet dread. The song itself was a breakthrough of sorts. Christie began writing it on a friend’s Fender VI before reinterpreting the whole thing on his Jaguar in a completely different tuning, landing somewhere between psychedelic drift and dream-sequence logic.

“The lyrics are probably my most abstract and stream-of-consciousness, maybe exploring the process of learning to accept uncomfortable emotions like anxiety and dread,” Christie says of the track. “The whole song feels like a dream sequence that came from spending too much time alone in my room at night, ruminating and overthinking. Thankfully, I don’t experience that anymore.”

Watch the video for “Solitude” here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Fraternal+Twin+Solitude

Produced by Dan Howard (Victoryland, Forth Wanderers, Amiture Music), Halo Fell Forever is Christie’s first Fraternal Twin record since 2016’s Homeworlding, and roughly half of its eight songs date back to that era. The rest were shaped during a long stretch of searching that culminated in Christie uprooting from Kingston to New York City in late 2023, reconfiguring the lineup with Marco Spodek (drums), Mariah Houston (guitar), and Forrest Philpot (bass). Expect the labyrinthine guitar work of “Whirlpool” and “Medicine,” the shattered distortion of “Evil Eye,” and the quiet transformations of “Metamorphosis” and “Lucidity” — a record that draws comparisons to Codeine at its heaviest and Mount Eerie at its most mystical.

“It takes me back to this sort of fall from innocence I experienced years ago,” Christie says of the title. “It shattered the way I saw the world for a while.”

Halo Fell Forever Tracklist:
1. Solitude
2. Whirlpool
3. Half Grown
4. Medicine
5. Evil Eye
6. Lucidity
7. Metamorphosis
8. Halo Fell Forever
9. Tip of Everything

Fraternal Twin also hit the road next month with NYC’s Ditch, kicking off August 7 at Purgatory in Brooklyn and winding through Baltimore, Durham, Asheville, Nashville, Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. And for anyone worried this record marks another vanishing act — Christie says otherwise.

“I don’t plan on disappearing again anytime soon. Expect a lot more music from this band in the coming years.”

Pre-order Halo Fell Forever now, catch Fraternal Twin on tour this August, and follow @fraternaltwin on Instagram for updates.

Fraternal Twin Live 2026:
August 7 – Brooklyn, NY – Purgatory
August 8 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
August 9 – Durham, NC – The Fuzzy Needle
August 10 – Asheville, NC – daughaus
August 11 – Nashville, TN – Betty’s
August 12 – Indianapolis, IN – State Street Pub
August 13 – Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge
August 14 – Detroit, MI – Outer Limits Lounge
August 15 – Columbus, OH – Sunset Park
August 16 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
August 17 – Philadelphia, PA – Cousin Danny’s