The nearly 15-year-long wait is almost over: Swet Deth, Eric Bachmann’s first full-length Crooked Fingers album since 2011’s Breaks In the Armor (Merge Records), drops on February 27, 2026. Already declared one of the year’s most anticipated releases, today’s final pre-release single, “Insomnia,” is accompanied by a video directed by Bachmann and Joe Centeno.

“Insomnia” reveals another facet of Swet Deth’s expanded sonic signature, where Bachmann’s voice and acoustic guitar are animated by his core collaborators, Jeremy Wheatley and Jon Rauhouse. It also pulls back the curtain on the album’s preoccupation with death, sweet and otherwise, a peak Eric Bachmann composition that is at once wry and cathartic, finding one of the great singer-songwriters of his generation grooving past the graveyard.

Eric Bachmann, on “Insomnia”:

“I had a heart attack back in October. Doctor says it partly happened because I didn’t get enough sleep over the years. Insomnia is something I’ve dealt with for as long as I can remember. Feels like if I fall asleep I might miss something. I wrote this song about it. The plucky, winding guitar part that enters after the first verse represents a little venomous snake, dancing in slithers through a pile of unknowing victims slumbering on the beach in the tropical moonlight. I’m in love with the shimmering line of light the moon makes against the ocean when you’re on the beach late at night.”