Imperial Teen are excited to announce their seventh studio album All Over You (Merge Records) out October 9, 2026 (pre-order). The band has shared the album’s lead single “Overdrive” alongside its official music video. Written during a late-session burst of inspiration in Provincetown, “Overdrive” captures Imperial Teen’s signature mix of urgency, wit, and hook-driven energy, complete with a sly Sex Pistols nod and the album’s only reference to the internet.

The band have also announced their first run of tour dates since 2020. They will join The Breeders at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre on August 22 and 23, followed by a run of headline shows in October spanning both coasts, with stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, and more. 

Arriving roughly every five to six years, each Imperial Teen record reflects what Roddy Bottum (guitars, keyboards, vocals) calls “an episodic piece of where we are now.” Despite living in different cities, Bottum, Will Schwartz (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Jone Stebbins (bass, vocals), and Lynn Truell (drums, vocals) continue to channel a shared creative chemistry that transcends distance. Their process, periodic writing retreats followed by scattered recording sessions, makes their time together both rare and potent. As Stebbins explains, “For the last few records, the process has been similar. We live great distances away from each other, so initially, we get together to collaborate, write, and create. When we have enough material, we reconvene to record. Both scenarios, creating and recording, take multiple trips, sometimes with big lapses of time in between due to our various schedules.”

That immediacy fuels All Over You, a record built from fleeting but electric moments. “Overdrive,” for example, came together in a single final take before Schwartz caught a ferry, its vocal captured in what Bottum recalls as a “magical” last-minute session. Elsewhere, the title track embodies the band at full force, initially built over a computer, gained its charming sneer in the studio, with Stebbins’ buoyant, fuzzed-out bassline adding bounce to its punchy, sloganeering lyrics. Truell’s improvised percussion lends unexpected texture, but it’s her climactic scream, “We’ve got nothing to do” that transforms the song into a rallying cry. “In my head,” Truell says, “I just went back to punk, to that feeling of prowling around looking for anything to do and being so mad about how boring everything is that you just have to yell.” The result is a defining Imperial Teen moment, where instinct and attitude collide. 

Imperial Teen Tour Dates:
22nd August – San Francisco, CA @ The Castro Theatre *
23rd August – San Francisco, CA @ The Castro Theatre *
14th October – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon +
15th October – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill +
17th October – Seattle, WA @ Barboza +
18th Ocrtober – Portland, OR @ Swan Dive +
3rd November – Boston, MA @ The Lilypad
4th November – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
5th November – Philadelphia, PA @ Nikki Lopez
7th November – Durham, NC @ The Pinhook

* w/ The Breeders [SOLD OUT]
+ w/ Kids on a Crime Spree