New Constellations Announce Debut Album It Comes In Waves, Out May 15, 2026 via Nettwerk; New Single “I Disappear” Out Today
January 16, 2026 BY Emma Orland
Portland-based indie-pop duo New Constellations — lifelong friends Harlee Case and Josh Smith — announce their long-awaited debut album, It Comes In Waves, arriving May 15, 2026 via Nettwerk. Written over the course of three years and recorded between Portland and Los Angeles, It Comes In Waves is a record shaped by time, trust, and emotional honesty. Spanning 13 tracks that drift between ethereal dream-pop and euphoric dance-pop, the album reflects New Constellations’ belief that life unfolds in cycles, grief and joy, heartbreak and renewal, certainty and doubt, all arriving in waves.
“The majority of the music is about relationships that I’ve been in, some of it really happy and some of it really heart-wrenching,” Case explains. “In general, life comes in waves. Grief comes in waves. Happiness comes in waves. If you live long enough, you know you’re going to experience all these different types of things.”
“’It Comes In Waves’ is a phrase I’ve used in my life for a lot of different situations,” Smith adds. “There’s an ebb and a flow, and life is not what’s ahead of you. Life is what is happening to you at that moment.”
Alongside the announcement, the duo shared the album’s newest single, “I Disappear,” a raw and introspective meditation on anxiety, self-doubt, and losing yourself inside your own thoughts. “I was going through a really heavy time, and ‘I Disappear’ was written as a stream of consciousness,” Case says. “It’s based on the idea that when you start to spiral about shit and get super in your head about something, you disappear from yourself and the present moment. I believe so much in the law of attraction and manifestation, which also works oppositely. If I’m capable of controlling outcomes with my mind, then I’m fucked right now, because I’m stuck in this loop.”
“I Disappear,” alongside “Believe Again,” a tender thank-you letter to Case’s younger self, and “Secret Safe,” a synth-driven ode to friendships that endure distance and time, help shape the emotional foundation of the album, while tracks like the ‘80s-tinged “Dandelion” and the dreamy slow-burn “Waterslides” expand that foundation to capture the ache of endings alongside the fragile hope of new beginnings. At its core, It Comes In Waves is a document of growth, personal, creative, and relational, tracing the evolution of two Oregon teenagers recording songs in a childhood bedroom into one of indie pop’s most emotionally resonant partnerships.
Following a breakthrough period that included over 100 million streams on their viral debut single “Hot Blooded” and 18 million views on the accompanying music video, a rapidly expanding fanbase, and an NPR Tiny Desk submission for “Hot Blooded” that has more than one million views – watch HERE, New Constellations enter 2026 with renewed clarity and purpose.
Regardless of the subject it tackles, friendship, love, mental health, career uncertainty, or self-belief, It Comes In Waves stands as a keepsake for anyone learning how to sit with their feelings as they rise and fall.
The band have been confirmed for this year’s BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley, CA on May 22nd and 23rd. For the complete lineup, please visit https://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/.
“I Disappear” out today via Nettwerk, Listen Here!
It Comes In Waves out May 15, 2026, Pre-Save/Pre-Order Here!
