Philadelphia/New Jersey quintet Sweet Pill are back with news of their next album: Still There’s a Glow is slated for release on March 13, 2026, via Hopeless Records. The dynamic lead single ‘No Control’ is out today alongside a Johnny Komar-directed video. Check it out below.
“This is the first song we completed for Still There’s A Glow,” singer Zayna Youssef explained in a press release. “At that time, I was feeling a bit…indulgent. Taking what I want, whenever I wanted it, and disregarding the world all at the same time. I felt like my self worth was cheap, and that I had no boundaries as a healthy person. I quite literally had no self control. This song is sort of my way to rock bottom. It is my fancy way of calling myself a pushover, unconfident, and ungrateful. I had this ‘grass is always greener’ kind of mentality and wanted more when I already had it and then some.”
Following their 2022 debut LP, Where the Heart Is, the new album was written and recorded after the band scrapped essentially an entire album’s worth of demos. “I went through some depression last spring, and then I went into therapy. It was also a big turning point in my life as I was about to turn 30, while I’d written our first record when I was graduating from college–that’s a big change,” Youssef reflected. “I could’ve kept making bad choices because they’re easy, but I had to come clean to myself. Half the album was written before and the other half after, so the songs are kind of hard on myself but some are also hopeful, with a light at the end of the tunnel. You put out a fire, there’s still an ember that’s still glowing–that’s the record. It’s about being at a low and climbing out of it.”
Youssef added: “A lot of the album is about the hurdle of being kind to yourself, making good choices for yourself. This was our first time writing as a band and to an audience, and it’s so honest and vulnerable. I hope it makes people feel like they can be honest with themselves in the same way.”
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Sweet Pill.
Still There’s A Glow Cover Artwork:
Still There’s A Glow Tracklist:
1. Sunblind
2. Shameless
3. No Control
4. Glow
5. Slow Burn
6. Smoke Screen
7. What the Devil Is Selling
8. Makes Me Sick
9. Rotten
10. Jinx
11. Tough Love
12. Holding On
13. Letting Go
