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Racing Mount Pleasant Returns With Sprawling New Single “Great Destroyer”

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4 days ago

November 12, 2026

Seven members of Racing Mount Pleasant posing around a blue pool table in a room with a bright green wall

Racing Mount Pleasant. Photo by Tim Nagle.

Seven voices, quiet strums and then a wall of sound — that is how Racing Mount Pleasant announces its return. The Chicago-based septet’s new single “Great Destroyer” arrives after a summer spent headlining across the US and playing the biggest solo crowds of its young career in Asia, and it captures a band two albums in and still reaching for a bigger panoramic view of Midwestern life.

Fresh off of an extensive tour run across the US and China this Summer, Chicago-based septet Racing Mount Pleasant returns to share new single “Great Destroyer”. The Midwestern band of twenty-somethings has always relished and thrived in the dissonance between quiet magnitude in their unpredictable arrangements, and grand swells of instrumentation and a choir of voices that only a band of seven can muster. “Great Destroyer” is no different.

Opening with the soft strums of a guitar before expanding into a vast, wailing track, the band’s new song captures the camaraderie and togetherness of being in the room with the septet as they craft these songs. With more to come in the new year, Racing Mount Pleasant’s new music is defined by where they are now, two albums in with plenty more sprawling ideas to illustrate their panoramic view of Midwestern life.

After joining Geese on tour last Fall, followed by two sold out debut shows of their own to close 2025, the band spent the Summer of 2026 on a headline US tour. They then followed that run with an unprecedented tour of shows across Asia that saw the band play to some of the biggest solo show crowds of their young careers in cities including Chengdu, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo. Last month, the band announced they’ll be playing Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona next year.

Racing Mount Pleasant began as a group of musician friends in Ann Arbor. They released one mysterious, but captivating album under the name Kingfisher in 2022, before reintroducing themselves as Racing Mount Pleasant with their eponymous sophomore album released in 2025. The New Yorker praised their self-titled full-length as a body of work from “a group with the ambition to get the most out of every song” and Pitchfork described it as “a cathartic, cleansing instant classic”.

Listen to “The Great Destroyer” above and stay tuned for more new music from Racing Mount Pleasant coming soon.

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MorMor’s ‘No One Alive Will Listen’ Is Out Now, With a 2027 Tour Across Europe and North America

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2 days ago

November 13, 2026

We Speak Media

Black-and-white portrait of MorMor wearing a hooded puffer jacket, looking up toward the light.

Toronto’s MorMor has a new album in the world and a tour to take it on the road. No One Alive Will Listen, out now via Promised Land Records, closes its run-up with the final single “Ecstacy” and a run of European and US dates for 2027 that begins in London in January.

LISTEN: “Ecstacy” | No One Alive Will Listen

Toronto artist and multi-instrumentalist MorMor released his new album No One Alive Will Listen via Promised Land Records on October 30th, sharing a final single “Ecstacy” ahead of the album release. “Ecstacy” captures the magnetic pull of destructive patterns, exploring the fine line between desire and self-destruction, and the ways we can become addicted to the very things that unravel us.

Speaking about “Ecstacy,” MorMor shares, “The song draws a parallel between addiction and a person, less about substance itself and more about an addiction to chaos, to traumatic love, and that kind of emotional intensity. At the same time, it marked a shift for me sonically. I leaned into more modern production rather than shying away from it, exploring new technology and textures I might have avoided before for being too on-the-nose. It was about embracing that instinct instead of resisting it.”

Alongside the final single MorMor announces a run of European and US tour dates for 2027. Beginning in London in January and continuing on to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and more the tour then heads to North America for dates across Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Find full tour routing below.

MorMor’s album No One Alive Will Listen releasing via Promised Land Records was recorded between London, Toronto, and at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studios. The album is punchy, spacious, gentle, and richly textured. The new song also follows support of the album from Vince Staples who played MorMor’s previous track “Like Heaven” featuring Celeste on his Apple Radio show.

The album moves through sleek and confident electronic pop into moments of pure devastation, offering a cross-examination of Nyquist’s psyche and delving deep under his skin as he asks probing questions about the patterns of his life. Speaking about No One Alive Will Listen MorMor shares, “This album captures a time where I felt very alienated. I had felt hopelessly misunderstood. Within me was a desire for love, but I had looked for it in the wrong places. At first there was chaos, an old version of me was forced to perish, and then beauty slowly arose.”

The new track follows previous singles, “Hard To Say Goodbye”, “Hurt You”, “Dawn 2”, “Don’t Need It” and “Touch” as well as a the previously mentioned collaboration with Celeste on “Like Heaven”. Celeste’s contribution to “Like Heaven” emerged entirely unplanned, as she ended up joining the session and recording her vocal on the spot, capturing a raw, immediate energy that couldn’t be recreated. Other collaborators on the album include producers Hudson Mohawke (Ye, ANOHNI), Jack Peñate (SAULT), and Russell Boring (JOBA/Brockhampton) alongside Kane Ritchotte (Haim, Portugal. The Man), John Keek (Dijon, Mk.gee, Vegyn), and Caleb Laven (Frank Ocean, SZA, Joy Again).

Following two acclaimed EPs – Heaven’s Only Wishful in 2018 and Some Place Else in 2019 – his debut album Semblance (2022) was by turns contemplative, jittery, wistful, gentle, and generous. His distinctive voice – a svelte tenor that sits comfortably higher in pitch – leaps out of the speakers, alighting over the sturdy bass lines, guitar riffs, and drums he played himself. Celebrated for his unique blend of indie pop, R&B, and dreamlike synth textures, the artist soon cemented his reputation for emotionally rich soundscapes marked by vulnerability and sonic depth.

MorMor has garnered attention across the media landscape, earning praise and support from press outlets such as The Observer, The Times, The Fader, Pitchfork, NPR, Hypebeast, Pigeons & Planes, Wonderland, NME, Dazed, CLASH, DIY, The Line of Best Fit, PAPER, High Snobiety & more. On the airwaves, his music has been spun on the likes of BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music, Apple Music 1 and NTS, with love from tastemakers including Jack Saunders, Jamz Supernova and Matt Wilkinson.

As a live phenomenon, MorMor has embarked on major headline tours across the US, UK and Europe, and has played festivals such as Field Day, Primavera Sound and Pitchfork Festival.

Listen to “Ecstacy” above, find album details below and stay tuned for more from MorMor coming soon.

Tour Dates

1/28 – London, UK @ ICA, London
1/29 – Paris, FR @ Le Point Éphémère
1/30 – Brussels @ Botanique
1/31 – Amsterdam @ Tolhuistuin
2/2 – Berlin @ Lark
2/4 – Istanbul @ Blind
2/23 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
2/24 – Montreal @ Bar Le Ritz
2/25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Zone 1
2/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo

MorMor
No One Alive Will Listen
Promised Land Records
October 30th, 2026
Don’t Need It
Like Heaven (feat. Celeste)
Hurt You
Hard To Say Goodbye
Dawn 2 Interlude
Dawn 2
Ecstasy
It’s Alright
Hold
Wish I Had My Life Back
Touch
Erase Me
Open Wounds