HARMLESS SHARES SOPHOMORE ALBUM ‘BY THEM, BY YOU, BY ME’ TOMORROW
October 20, 2025 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
Tomorrow, Gold Certified artist Harmless shares his sophomore album By Them, By You, By Me. It finds Los Angeles-based Nacho Cano ruminating on the intersection between creativity and careerism—the inexorable struggle that myriad artists face while uncovering their true selves within their work—and sees Cano emerge reborn with a new sense of purpose and sonic vitality. In Cano’s words, it is “a record about rejection. It’s a breakup album, but about breaking up with your job. There’s this idea that labor is what validates you. My dream came true—so why am I not happy? Those are feelings that are very complementary to heartbreak. So, I wanted to write about my passion and falling out with it.”
A largely self-produced affair, By Them By You By Me was assembled to completion in his birthplace, Mexico City, alongside studio wizards Santiago Mijares (Leon Bridges, Sam Evian), Patricio Mijares (Panda Bear, Sam Evian) and Francisco Sánchez de la Vega (Hawaiian Gremlins, O Tortuga), accompanying him.
Tomorrow, he will share the video for the title track that he filmed during a trip to Japan this summer. Adding, “the salaryman has traveled from Mexico to Hollywood and to Japan, and nothing changes.”
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By Them By You By Me is the latest release in an estimable body of work that Cano has built for himself under the Harmless name, dating back to the project’s 2012 debut, I’m Sure, under the initial alias Twin Cabins. It was from that first mixtape that Cano achieved a viral hit in the form of “Swing Lynn,” which dominated TikTok and ended up tallying more than 328 million plays on Spotify alone, and is certified Gold in the U.S. His 2024 debut record, Springs Eternal, continued that momentum with praise from Flood Magazine, Paste, The Big Takeover, Stereogum, and more, totaling his streams to over 800 million. He has toured with Vacations, Wavves, and Roar.
