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Mar 06, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Shervin Lainez

Tune-Yards have announced a new album, Better Dreaming, and shared a new song, “Limelight,” via a video for the single. They have also announced some new tour dates. Better Dreaming is due out May 26 via 4AD. Below, check out the new single, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as the tour dates.

Tune-Yards is Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, who are also married. “Limelight” was inspired by the family dancing to George Clinton music and their 3-year-old can be heard singing on the song. “This one almost didn’t make it onto the album because it felt trite, especially given multiple genocides across the globe and the particular impact on children (the kids are not ‘alright’),” says Garbus in a press release. “But it kept coming back as people kept responding positively to it, in particular our own kid. Who am I to talk about getting free, about us all getting free? Fannie Lou Hamer said, ‘Nobody’s free until everybody’s free’ and it feels vulnerable but important to see myself as part of that ‘everybody.’”

Better Dreaming follows 2021’s sketchy. and 2018’s I can feel you creep into my private life.

Read our interview with Tune-Yards on I can feel you creep into my private life.

Better Dreaming Tracklist:

1. Heartbreak
2. Swarm
3. Never Look Back
4. Suspended
5. Limelight
6. Get Through
7. Better Dreaming
8. How Big Is The Rainbow
9. See You There
10. Perpetual Motion
11. Sanctuary

Tune-Yards Tour Dates:

May 7 – Philadelphia, PA, USA, Venue 123
May 9 – Kingston, NY, USA, Assembly
May 10 – Portland, ME, USA, Space 538
May 12 – Brattleboro, VT, USA, The Stone Church
May 13 – Northampton, MA, USA, Iron Horse Music Hall
May 15 – New York, NY, USA, 101 Club

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