You may know Jack Manley from prior bands including Cosmonaut, Spires, and The Jennifer Shop—the latter of which never really got their time to shine due to making their debut immediately ahead of COVID. Following that era, though, Manley regrouped and recorded a series of compositions that would later become his solo debut Unmeasurable Terms, a four-song EP released last fall that featured a set of dream collaborators as his backing band that included Coheed and Cambria drummer Josh Eppard (you may remember that he performed a few of these tracks for us from his hometown of Kingston last October).
Today the songwriter is announcing that EP’s follow-up with his debut album Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, which is set to arrive early next year. The project digs deeper into Manley’s hospital stay following an OD that nearly proved fatal, with a newfound sense of clarity helping him to both set things back on track in his personal life while additionally initiating a spark for these tunes after a creative drought.
The first sample of this batch of songs also arrives today, with “Way Loud” sounding a bit like a more meditative take on Deerhunter. “‘Way Loud’ began as an instrumental but became a meditation on memory and forgetting,” Manley shares of the track. “A kind of defeatist call to arms—evoking the quiet ache of guilt, shame, and longing through the eyes of someone who keeps waking up in wreckage they have built themselves.”
While all of that sounds pretty heavy, the track itself is a breeze. Check it out with its hazy Alexander Russek–directed video below, and keep an eye out for Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? in early 2026.
