Muna are back with their first new album in four years. Dancing on the Wall, the indie pop trio’s fourth studio LP to date, is out May 8 via Saddest Factory/Secretly Group. Muna are all-in on the album’s theme—emotional risk and the power of collective release—as caught in their anthemic music video for the lead single, “Dancing on the Wall,” which you can watch below.
In a statement about the title track, Muna called it “possibly our favorite song” they’ve made as a band. “We think it’s all the best parts of MUNA – it’s coming from a really emotional and lonely place, but the song itself makes us feel powerful and euphoric,” they wrote. “It’s written in the moment that the clock strikes midnight at the ball, and you have to give up the fantasy. In this case, it’s the fantasy of loving someone or something that can’t love you back.”
Dancing on the Wall was produced by Naomi McPherson and follows Muna’s self-titled album from 2022. The record is described in a press release as balancing opposing ideas, such as propulsion and introspection or euphoria and unease, while ultimately “inviting listeners onto the dancefloor while keeping its inner world deliberately unresolved.”
Revisit the interview The Radical Joy of MUNA’s Queer Pop.
Dancing on the Wall:
01 It Gets So Hot
02 Dancing On The Wall
03 Eastside Girls
04 Wannabeher
05 On Call
06 So What
07 Party’s Over
08 Big Stick
09 Mary Jane
10 Girl’s Girl
11 …Unless
12 Why Do I Get A Good Feeling
13 Buzzkiller
