Sub*T today announced their debut album How My Own Voice Sounds will be released on May 1st, 2026, sharing its lead single “Overcomplicate” as an auspicious preview. Underscored by a pummeling rhythm, the grungy, dynamic track arrives with a compelling Jackie Young-directed video. “We see ‘Overcomplicate’ as the two sides of yourself talking to one another,” explains the NYC band of Grace Bennett and Jade Alcantara. “There’s a second whispered vocal layer in the bridge, which we feel represents the negative voice in someone’s head–the cynical one that you need to fight against.” How My Own Voice Sounds follows Sub*T’s 2024 EP Spring Skin, produced by Momma’s Aron Kobayashi Ritch, and 2021’s So Green, produced by Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, and is now available for pre-save.

Sub*T was born online. What started as a cross-country Twitter bond over stan culture—Bennett fighting for the honor of One Direction, Alcantara waving the banner of The 1975—led first to an Instagram follow, then to the mosh pit (where they met IRL several times a year), and eventually to a life-changing decision. In 2019, with zero prior musical experience, they each bought guitars, taught themselves to play, and started writing songs. While now a fully New York-based band, its sound is better defined by this origin story. Since meeting, Bennett and Alcantara have allowed themselves to be guided not by the pull of their surroundings and the pressure to be at the cutting edge, but by the force that first united them as teenagers on the internet: fandom. And on their debut album, they come into their own, riding the wave of their love for classic alt-rock, grunge, and indie rock and arriving at a place that’s decidedly their own.

Their first full-length comes on the heels of seven years of touring, writing, and rewriting. “We’ve spent a long time with a lot of these songs,” they explain. “We never really sat down with the intention of writing an album from the ground up, we’ve just been building our catalog for years.” As the duo sharpened their skills, they learned to sit with a song, giving it space to breathe and time to reveal itself. As a result, the 10 tracks on How My Own Voice Sounds feel completely baked, every melodic descent and every turn in the lyrics–which confront shadows like vibrato and fear, loss and growth, nostalgia and grief–patiently accounted for.

“The album title itself is more of a statement, but it poses a question we’ve been asking ourselves since we first started our band,” Sub*T explains. “How does my own voice sound? Not in a literal way. We know that much. But how do I want to use it, what do I want to say, how do I want to express all the details of my life so that I can recognize the sound of my own voice and understand myself? This album represents all the ways you can answer that to ultimately hear yourself as you really are.” The duo uses their actual voices in myriad creative ways as they chase these revelations; listen closely to How My Own Voice Sounds, and you’ll hear many vocal layers, spoken words, harmonies, laughing, whistling, and whispers.

Bennett and Alcantara each write on their own, but they often feel their songs come to life when voiced by the other. “I just feel like she can transform it in a way I couldn’t by myself,” Alcantara says of Bennett. “And when I hear it through her voice, I hear it in a different way. It’s almost like I gain confidence. Like, the lyrics can be great, but if it doesn’t make you feel the magic, it’s not ready.” It’s an interesting turn, how one writer’s words achieve authenticity when sung by another’s voice. This closeness, the sense of feminine camaraderie between Alcantara and Bennett, is central to Sub*T’s appeal. Listening to How My Own Voice Sounds, you get the sense of mutual affection and support that undergirds not only the songs, but the pair’s shared discipline as songwriters, patience as artists, and chemistry as friends. Credit it to shared traumas or their years spent on stan Twitter vying for 1D and The 1975. While their tastes have evolved—they note Juliana Hatfield and Liz Phair as inspirations for both their writing and their attitude—their ability to stand alongside one another has only strengthened.