wrabel unveils new single “surrender”
November 25, 2025 BY Emma Orland
Acclaimed singer-songwriter WRABEL continues building momentum toward his forthcoming third full-length album with today’s release of “surrender,” a hypnotic and heart-forward new single that expands the emotional and conceptual world of up above, arriving February 13, 2026. Leaning into the album’s more kinetic side, ‘surrender’ builds a world of movement and tension that grows wider and more consuming as the track unfolds.
“Surrender” offers another vivid glimpse into up above’s dream-touched universe, a body of work that marks a major creative evolution for WRABEL. The album is the first he has co-produced, crafted alongside longtime friend and collaborator Austin Ward, with additional production and final mixing by Damian Taylor, known for his work with Björk, Frou Frou, The Prodigy, The Temper Trap, and Arcade Fire.
Much of up above was written at WRABEL’s coffee table and represents a shift from the deeply autobiographical approach of his 2023 LP based on a true story. This time, WRABEL reaches toward wider existential reflections, surreal atmospheres, and the blurred edges of reality, inspired in part by Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario.
Arriving on the heels of early singles “greener/garden,” “up above,” and “future,” the track further expands the album’s emotionally rich, surreal, and cinematic landscape.
Speaking on the track, WRABEL shares:
“‘surrender’ is definitely the sweatiest song on the record. It’s about love. I believe love is in fact a surrender to another – emotionally, spiritually, physically – love asks us to put aside every ounce of our own ego to see, hear, and care for someone else as we do ourselves. Not that we abandon ourselves in a bad way, but we take on the wants, needs, and desires of someone else as our own. That sweet spot in the middle of the venn diagram of love.”
Visually, the single continues WRABEL’s collaboration with director and photographer Dana Trippe (Weyes Blood, Janelle Monáe,) whose dreamlike imagery mirrors the album’s exploration of awe, disorientation, and the strange beauty of being human.
With “Surrender,” WRABEL opens another door into up above: a record that embraces duality, leans into emotional truth, and redefines the edges of his artistry.
