For Immediate Release

July 8, 2026

FRATERNAL TWIN 

ANNOUNCE FIRST NEW ALBUM IN A DECADE

NEW YORK BAND UNVEIL HALO FELL FOREVER, 

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 - PRE-ORDER

PRODUCED BY DAN HOWARD 

(VICTORYLAND, FORTH WANDERERS, AMITURE MUSIC)

“SOLITUDE” PREVIEWS THE NEW RECORD - LISTEN

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERES TODAY - WATCH

U.S. TOUR WITH DITCH BEGINS AUGUST 7 

IN BROOKLYN, NY AT PURGATORY

Photo Credit: Abbie Huynh [Download Hi-Res]

“A lot of muscle and clarity.”

- STEREOGUM

“A dense, beautiful, and often-haunting patchwork of bedroom pop and baroque textures. It sounds timeless in its weight and wholeness.”

- IMPOSE MAGAZINE

New York’s Fraternal Twin, the project of musician Tom Christie, is excited to announce their first album in ten years, Halo Fell Forever, which arrives September 4, 2026. Opening track “Solitude” arrives today with an official music video. Riffs linger around insular feelings and brightly toned guitars unfurl onto the track. The video was directed by Ben Correa and produced by Nigel Truesdale, portraying the despondency of isolation as Tom faces himself in hotel rooms, hallways, and within the song.

About the new song, Tom shares, “‘Solitude’ was a bit of a departure for me in terms of songwriting and riff writing, and a breakthrough in arranging. I started writing the song on my friend’s Fender VI and later reinterpreted it on my Jaguar in a completely different tuning. The lyrics are probably my most abstract and stream-of-consciousness, maybe exploring the process of learning to accept uncomfortable emotions like anxiety and dread. The main riff sounds almost psychedelic to me, and the whole song feels like a dream sequence that came from spending too much time alone in my room at night, ruminating and overthinking. Thankfully, I don’t experience that anymore.”

LISTEN TO “SOLITUDE”

WATCH “SOLITUDE”

PRE-ORDER HALO FELL FOREVER

Skin Gets Hot (Deluxe), an expanded edition of Fraternal Twin’s fan-favorite debut record, arrived last month. The album is complete with two new studio recordings tracked and mixed by producer Dan Howard (Victoryland, Forth Wanderers) at Chateau Grand in Brooklyn—a re-recording of the title track and one previously unreleased song—along with several cassette demos from the era. 

For the past several years, Tom Christie has been arranging an ever-twisting and shifting song of his own. Beginning in New York's Hudson Valley, where he grew up, Tom fleshed out the soft and intricate songs that became the first Fraternal Twin album, Skin Gets Hot. Released quietly in the spring of 2015, the album passed from fan to fan and developed a cult reputation based on its uniquely intimate display of raw emotion. Their sophomore effort, Homeworlding (2016) is an impressively natural progression from their debut.

LISTEN TO SKIN GETS HOT (DELUXE)

WATCH “SKIN GETS HOT (REVISITED)”

A busy presence on the East Coast, Tom and his band have shared stages with Girlpool, Palm, Destroyer, Frankie Cosmos, Soccer Mommy, Vagabon, Horse Jumper of Love, Porches, and more. Next month, they’ll hit the road with NYC band Ditch, kicking off on August 7 at Purgatory in Brooklyn, NY. For information on upcoming shows, see below and follow @fraternaltwin on Instagram. 

★ FRATERNAL TWIN LIVE 2026 ★

AUGUST

7 – Brooklyn, NY – Purgatory

8 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery

9 – Durham, NC – The Fuzzy Needle

10 – Asheville, NC – daughaus

11 – Nashville, TN – Betty's

12 – Indianapolis, IN – State Street Pub

13 – Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge

14 – Detroit, MI – Outer Limits Lounge

15 – Columbus, OH – Sunset Park

16 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls

17 – Philadelphia, PA – Cousin Danny's

FRATERNAL TWIN

HALO FELL FOREVER

Release Date: September 4, 2026

[Download Hi-Res Artwork by Clara Curbera]

Solitude - WATCH

Whirlpool 

Half Grown 

Medicine 

Evil Eye

Lucidity 

Metamorphosis 

Halo Fell Forever 

Tip of Everything 

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For Tom Christie, patience is the greatest virtue. You can hear this in the entirety of the decade-plus of music he’s made as Fraternal Twin, but especially in the band’s current lineup, in which he’s joined by Marco Spodek (drums), Mariah Houston (guitar), and Forrest Philpot (bass). The songs unfurl at a tectonic pace; every shimmering guitar and vocal melody — no matter how beautiful — creeps along glacially, the low end groaning and creaking under the weight of Christie’s existential musings. Eventually, amid the delicate swirling of these winding pieces, they explode into distortion and noise. But for these moments of clarity and catharsis, you’re going to have to wait. 


Fraternal Twin’s new album Halo Fell Forever is a product of this patient approach. This is true in a literal sense — this is Christie’s first record for the project since 2016’s Homeworlding, and about half of the songs were originally written around the time of that album. But it’s also true in a more spiritual one: songs like “Whirlpool” and “Medicine” feel murkier and more mysterious than anything Christie has written before, both in the labyrinthine arrangements of guitar melodies that spiderweb across Spodek’s chest-rattling percussion and the imagistic, opaque fragments of Christie’s lyrics. It’s not withholding, not exactly; these are songs — like Codeine’s heaviest or Mount Eerie’s most mystical — that demand close listening to the slow-moving parts, begging you to peel back the layers and reveal the songs’ glowing emotional cores. 


Christie describes the decade that led to this record as a period of searching. During that time, he uprooted his life and moved from Kingston to New York City in late 2023, a move that precipitated finally finishing this record and reconfiguring the lineup of the band. It was a period that was, by his admission, full of major detours and hard lessons. Halo Fell Forever, as a title, is in part a reference to this tumult — an evocation of time spent wandering in the wilderness. “It takes me back to this sort of fall from innocence I experienced years ago,” he says. “It shattered the way I saw the world for a while.” The record matches the uncertainty of this period — it’s heavy and unsettled, introspective and emotionally fraught. “Evil Eye,” for example, is shot through with a distortion more shattered than anything else in the Fraternal Twin repertoire. Though the record was recorded with producer Dan Howard before the current lineup of the band coalesced, it presages the band as a live force — crushing, exploratory, never offering up the easy answers or resolutions. 


But there are also moments of peace amid the turmoil. Halo Fell Forever, Christie says, is also about learning from mistakes, pressing onward in your convictions with the confidence that can only come from really working through your problems. It feels telling that there are tracks called “Metamorphosis” and “Lucidity” — it’s a record that’s full of tension but also moments of transformation and clarity. As a whole, Halo Fell Forever is a work of maturity and growth, reflecting on hard times while also clearly setting its eyes on the clear path forward. And for Christie, that path is also one that’s going to result in a lot more activity from the band. “I don’t plan on disappearing again anytime soon,” he says. “Expect a lot more music from this band in the coming years.” 

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