Tune-Yards Shock Launch New EP, Share Video for New Single “Sand Into Stone”
Inform the Future With Your Physique Out Now by way of 4AD
Sep 18, 2025
Images by Shervin Lainez
Tune-Yards are releasing a brand new album, Higher Dreaming, in Might by way of 4AD. Now they’ve shock launched a brand new companion EP, Inform the Future With Your Physique, and shared a video for its lead single, “Sand Into Stone.” Jayla Smith directed the video. Watch it beneath and likewise stream the EP.
The band’s Merrill Garbus had this to say in a press launch: “‘I breathed on the folks and the folks began shedding their minds.’ These songs got here rolling off of our fingers and tongues proper after Higher Dreaming. With them, we match the overconfidence of backwards tyrannical overlords with the arrogance of mid-career artists within the zone. Might we launch our cultural concern and grief with a breath of fireplace!”
Beforehand Tune-Yards launched Higher Dreaming’s first single, “Limelight,” which was one in every of our Songs of the Week. Then they launched its second single, “Heartbreak,” by way of a music video directed by Garbus. Its third single, “How Massive is the Rainbow,” made it on Songs of the Week.
Tune-Yards is Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, who’re additionally married. “Limelight” was impressed by the household dancing to George Clinton music and their 3-year-old will be heard singing on the music.
“Making artwork this present day for me is a battle for focus; we’re in an age of interruption,” mentioned Garbus in a earlier press launch, in regards to the challenges confronted when making Higher Dreaming.
Higher Dreaming follows 2021’s sketchy. and 2018’s I can really feel you creep into my non-public life.
Learn our interview with Tune-Yards on I can really feel you creep into my non-public life.
