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The 1975 new album: the DOGS tracker

Tracking The 1975 Last updated Jul 24 2026 · 21:45 ET Status Active

When is The 1975's new album out?

There is no official release date. A new album titled DOGS is confirmed to exist and to be substantially finished — Matty Healy confirmed the title on camera in December 2025 and said the band "made two" albums. As of Jul 24 2026, neither the band, Dirty Hit, nor any established outlet has reported a date, and no tour dates are listed anywhere. A November 2026 window circulating among fan accounts is unverified.

Current status · As of Jul 24 2026

Finished, titled, undated. The album exists; the era hasn't opened. Every verified signal points to a completed record (possibly two) sitting on the shelf while the band waits for its moment — with no rollout, no single, and no live dates announced. The last verified development is now seven months old, which by this band's standards means the silence itself is the story.

On the Record

What's confirmed

The Record, Dated

Evidence log

Every entry dated and classed: Official statements · Reporting from established press · Signal — observable events · Fan discussion — unverified.

  1. Mar 2024
    Official

    The Still… At Their Very Best tour concludes in Manchester. The band declares an "indefinite hiatus" from live shows — explicitly not a breakup — to focus on new music and their personal lives.

    Source: Band statements; tour record
  2. Late 2024
    Reporting

    NME and Variety report the band writing and recording, with hints from Healy that the next phase could lean more stripped-back and guitar-centered.

    Source: NME; Variety
  3. May 2025
    Official

    Manager Jamie Oborne, on The Money Trench podcast, confirms the band is in the studio making a record he describes in glowing terms — while pointedly refusing to name a date: the world would be listening, so it had to be right.

    Source: The Money Trench podcast
  4. Jun 2025
    Signal

    The band's only show of 2025: a Pyramid Stage headline at Glastonbury. The set closes with a single word on the screens — DOGS — also spotted on George Daniel's drum kit. No explanation follows.

    Source: Broadcast footage; festival coverage
  5. Nov 2025
    Signal

    Healy posts a snippet of an unreleased song on TikTok, the first new-music tease of the quiet period.

    Source: Melodic Magazine; Healy's TikTok
  6. Late 2025
    Official

    "Human Too" quietly vanishes from Being Funny in a Foreign Language on streaming. Healy confirms it was deliberate, writing on Reddit: the track was removed "so the album is more how I want it to be." A band revising a three-year-old record while sitting on new ones is a statement of standards.

    Source: Healy on Reddit, via Melodic Magazine
  7. Dec 2025
    Official

    The confirmation. Stopped by a fan after a Q&A at Gateshead College, Healy confirms on camera that DOGS is the album's name — and adds: "We made two." Rolling Stone and NME pick it up; a representative for the band declines to elaborate.

    Source: Rolling Stone; fan video via TikTok
  8. Dec 2025
    Reporting

    RUSSH's albums preview reports a companion title, GHEMB — unpacked as "God has entered my body, like a body my same size." It stays in the reported column until it's on an actual tracklist.

    Source: RUSSH
  9. Dec 2025
    Reporting

    RUSSH also references Healy mentioning "a couple of shows next February in the UK." Our note: no such public dates ever appeared on listings services, and we have found no verified record of public February 2026 shows. Either the plans changed, the shows were private, or the report was mistaken — we treat this thread as unresolved rather than pretend it didn't exist.

    Source: RUSSH; listings check Jul 2026
  10. Apr 2026
    Fan discussion

    Fan accounts amplify a claim that the album is "set to release" in November 2026. No source is offered; the most-shared post is dated April 1. We trace the claim's full history in the Rumor Mill.

    Source: Unverified fan accounts on X
  11. May–Jun 2026
    Fan discussion

    AI-generated aggregator articles claim a 2026 US tour — with no dates, venues, or sources, and internal contradictions (one concedes mid-article that nothing has been announced). We do not treat these as reporting.

    Source: Low-quality aggregator sites (not linked by policy)
  12. Jul 24 2026
    Signal

    Our scheduled check: still no official date, no single, and no tour dates listed on major listings services. The silence holds.

    Source: Songkick listings; official channels
Our Read

The analysis

Analysis Our informed reading of the evidence — argued honestly, and labeled as exactly that.

Tracked, Not Trusted

The rumor board

Unverified Claims in circulation, rated honestly. Nothing here is fact until it moves upstairs.

DOGS arrives in November 2026Plausible, unverified

Fits the album-cycle math and their autumn history, but traces only to fan accounts — not the band, the label, or any outlet with a track record. Full breakdown in the Rumor Mill.

A 2026 US tour is comingUnsourced

Claimed only by AI-generated aggregator sites without dates or sourcing, and contradicted by empty listings services. Nothing here yet.

GHEMB is the second album's titleReported, unconfirmed

A single press report (RUSSH) with a very 1975-shaped title. Credible enough to log, not confirmed enough to state.

Honest Gaps

What we don't know

The Dial Positions

What to watch next

The Practice

Update history

Sources on record
  • Rolling Stone — Healy's Gateshead College comments and the fan video (Dec 2025)
  • NME — two-albums report (Dec 2025); writing/recording reports (late 2024)
  • Melodic Magazine — TikTok snippet; Healy's Reddit statement on "Human Too" (Nov 2025)
  • RUSSH — GHEMB report and 2026 albums preview (Dec 2025 / Jun 2026)
  • The Money Trench podcast — Jamie Oborne interview (May 2025)
  • Variety — recording reports (late 2024)
  • Songkick and major listings services — touring status checks (Jul 2026)

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