Tough Love Records / UK / 2026
Another Country is the fifth full-length album by Cindy, the San Francisco-based group built around the songwriting of Karina Gill. Recorded, like all of its predecessors, in their hometown and for the first time with a consistent line-up held over from their previous record (the Swan Lake EP from 2024), and is replete with the poetry of private vistas, eavesdropped dramas and confusing winds. These are classic Cindy concerns, and yet, as always, contain plenty new mystery and charm to somehow feel like quiet revelations each time. Another Country is both opaque in its intentions and specific in its presentation, and as such presents the kind of truth that keeps the listener on the search for answers just out of reach.
"The title of this record, Another Country, refers to the James Baldwin novel of that name. The book has a kind of drama that makes sense to me. When I look around, the obvious explanations are not enough. The miasma of feelings and ideas that are supposed to account for it, doesn't. Baldwin washes past all that to longings that begin to explain. Cindy songs come out of the x-rays my particular brain makes out of what I see and experience. What you hear on this record is the result of collaboration with the members of Cindy that transforms that shadowy thing into full color, fully fleshed. Each of them, in music, is sure-footed and unblinking and making this record together felt like, 'yes, yes, you see what I mean'".
Cindy is Karina, Staizsh, Will & Oli. Another Country will be released on 1st May 2026 via Tough Love.
A Mixtape for Another Country:
“This mixtape is a testament to how making music can make you friends. Here is a compilation of songs by bands and individuals Cindy is connected with through music, including bands you know and love -- like Ribbon Stage, TV Buddha, The Gabys, Menow, Bobby Would, The Hobknobs and others -- as well as music you've never heard because it's never been released. Some bands even heroically made new songs for the tape. It was a moving experience to make this -- a hint that you are more loved than you know. Huge thanks to all our friends who contributed.” - Karina Gill