Motorists share details on new album, 'Never Sing Alone'
Colin Medley

Motorists share details on new album, 'Never Sing Alone'

The Toronto-based power pop band Motorists returned today with the announcement of their new record, Never Sing Alone. Their upcoming record, which comes shortly after the release of 2024's Touched By The Stuff, will be out March 6 via We Are Time Records.

The band also shared "Frogman", their second, jangle pop-influenced single off the new album, as well as an accompanying music video. Watch/listen to it below:

On "Frogman", front person Craig Fahner reflects on a memory of a scuba diver getting caught on his fishing lure while on Vancouver Island. "After struggling to dislodge it for a few minutes, someone in a scuba suit emerged from the water with my stuck lure in hand," he said via press release. "He swam up and handed it back to me, then went back into the water and disappeared." Fahner's father then called the diver a "Frogman", and the phrasing stuck, according to the artist.

The image of the frogman then evolved into a whimsical story about escaping monotony and pursuing a life of total freedom, per Fahner. "On another level, it’s about the abruptness of loss, of looking into your empty hands wondering where the thing you were just holding went, and whether your life will be the same without it."

Chris Cohen (formerly of Deerhoof) is credited as the mixer and producer of Never Sing Alone. According to the band, all of them worked together to explore a more lush, jaunty yet still melancholic, and jangly sound for the new record, further expanding on their power pop roots.

The first single "Cristobal" was released on November 14, 2025.

Never Sing Alone cover art courtesy of Motorists

Never Sing Alone is out March 6. Pre-order here. Official tracklist:

  1. Cristobal
  2. Scattered White Horses
  3. The Damage
  4. Frogman
  5. Stander
  6. Diogenes
  7. Anomaniacs
  8. The Man in the Circular Window
  9. Next Blue Kings
  10. PCSD
  11. Reprise

Victoria Borlando

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