Show Me the Body releases its new studio album, Alone Together, via Loma Vista Recordings. LISTEN HERE.

Alone Together serves as the official follow-up to the band’s celebrated 2022 album, Trouble The Water, and bears themes of praxis and putting belief into action. Alone Together is not about atmosphere, but about direct communication, a call to galvanize ourselves and the people around us. Working alongside producers Klas Åhlund (Robyn, Ghost) and Kenneth Blume III (Geese, Fcukers), the New York Hardcore stalwarts recontextualized their core language into something with more focus, urgency, and clarity than ever before.

Bones of the band’s fourth full-length was first formed in their Corpus studio, in the basement of the building that serves as the New York City collective’s headquarters. It’s also the home in which frontman Julian Cashwan Pratt lives with his young family, writing the album in the wake of his daughter’s birth amidst existential crises and the loss of loved ones. Fittingly, Alone Together brings the band’s ethos of resilience in the darkest moments into startling focus, making for the trailblazers’ most harrowing and joyous output to date.

Klas Åhlund, one of the album’s producers, came over from Sweden to visit Pratt and fellow SMTB founder Harlan Steed in Queens and gave a blunt assessment of the band’s demos. “He caught me at me becoming an adult, so I didn’t tell him to fuck off.” And so, Pratt said, the band sat with Åhlund’s one critical piece of advice: “There’s certain parts of our music that are distinctly Show Me The Body. And he was like, ‘those parts only your band could do? You should just do that all the time. All the parts that sound like everybody else, you should just do less.'” With this ringing in their minds, they soon decamped to Kenneth Blume’s California studio, where the band and their new odd-couple producers took that core sound to unheard-of heights.

This spring, Pratt spoke with Rolling Stone about the making of and intentions behind Alone Together.When asked about the themes and feelings of tragic loss juxtaposed with immense love that the lyrics of these new records convey, he volunteered:

“I think throughout Show Me the Body, I write about things that I feel and the things that I see. When I was younger, I was writing about the city. And now I’m feeling like love and loss constantly, but also trying as much as I can to believe in life, that the important part is guiding them into a way to enjoy life and to think that there’s a beautifulness to this crushing reality, rather than just losing of friends.”

Last week, the band debuted the album live for the first time in London at dance venue The Cause. Earlier this week, the band brought the album home to NYC with an in-store performance at Rough Trade New York. They will be taking their infamous live show across 23 North American cities starting in Boston this September for the Alone Together tour. Notably, the band’s hometown show at Webster Hall will be the first show without a stage barrier in over a decade. Later this year, the band will make the rounds in the UK and Europe, playing select festival dates and supporting Deafheaven on a run of shows before embarking on the North American tour.

During the rollout of the album, Show Me the Body launched a series of conversations in which Pratt speaks with “a few of my best friends, creative peers, and mentors about life, loss, family, community, art, and praxis.” The series is called ‘Alone Together‘ and was directed by Nicolas Heller (New York Nico). Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 with Dracula O. / Chi, Kasie Kirkland AKA Yung Mayne, Jaylen Strong, Yo Chill, and Starker are all available on the Show Me the Body YouTube page and Spotify.

Alone Together is available via all digital platforms and physically on CD and Vinyl. Check out physical merchandise, including the pressings of Alone Together on vinyl, their Krink marker collab, Alone Together and new coffin t-shirts, and upcoming tour dates at showmethebody.com.