The unmistakable sound of Portland’s Abronia, a potent blend of widescreen psychedelia, desert noir, Eastern drone, and acid folk, is returning with their most ambitious work yet.

The six piece has announced their fourth studio album, ‘Shapes Unravel,’ due for release on February 20th, 2026. The band promises an emotionally expansive and structurally complex record, moving with a “strange gravitational pull” that layers grief, haunted memory, and flashes of transcendence.

The first taste of the album is the single ‘New Imposition.’ The cinematic track, which opens with eerie pedal steel and echoing guitar plucking, has a dark and visceral backstory. Singer/saxophone player Keelin Mayer revealed the song was inspired by the painful reality of the addiction crisis seen through the lens of hollow consumerism, offering a harrowing quote:

“Going into a Fred Meyer (Pacific Northwest one stop shopping) during the pandemic–walking around the store while your drug addicted boyfriend shove racks of ribs, ice cream and deodorant down his pants, while people are shooting up in the bathroom. We think someone steals his iPhone at the self-checkout, but it turns up shoved between two bags of chips. You only realize your boyfriend was shoplifting when he pulls the stolen things out of his pants in the car. The guilt and shame you feel as you watch so many people succumb to addiction. That Fred Meyer location is now closed because it couldn’t sustain the wave of crime. Watching the fruits of unbridled capitalism and the greed of the ruling elite bloom into full technicolor. Try to run away before the wave gets you too.”

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