Celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band, globally-celebrated alt-rock phenomenon Mother Mother have shared their brand new single “Make Believe.”
Today, the band also announces a run of European headline and festival dates beginning this summer, including stops at Lollapalooza Berlin and Paris, as well as headline shows in Budapest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Tilburg and a show at London’s famed O2 Academy Brixton, the band’s only UK show of 2025. The run concludes with their first ever headline date in Istanbul, on July 22. See the full list of dates below and click HERE for ticket information.
The imaginative “Make Believe” is only the first taste of what’s to come on Nostalgia. “I indulged a bit in my own life-philosophy on this track,” frontman and lyricist Ryan Guldemond says of the song. “Magical thinking, interconnection, cosmic gallivanting.”
Nostalgia is an album that delivers a creative palette as simultaneously expansive and cohesive as Mother Mother have ever offered. Arriving on the heels of 2023’s acclaimed Grief Chapter, it fosters both the spirit of creativity and total originality that fans have come to know and love about the band, while also pushing their musicality, lyricism, and aesthetics to new peaks. It’s heartfelt and dark, funneling and fractaling themes of alienation, existentialism, self-love and self-hate, gender roles, and spirituality through the vibrant imagery of otherworldly landscapes and mythical creatures.
“In creating ‘Nostalgia,’ our goal was to embody a childlike creativity which often becomes elusive as we age and gather too many tricks,” explains Guldemond, noting the importance of their emotional cohesion for this album-making process. “We evaluated every creative choice by its emotional impact—whether that was a lyric, a reverb trail or an EQ curve. If something didn’t evoke a strong emotional reaction—we let it go. This approach led to work we genuinely love and take pride in.”
In making their tenth studio album, Mother Mother have achieved something few acts get the chance to: freedom in creativity, resulting in a record that feels both true to their legacy and gesturing towards the next two decades ahead. Stay tuned for more as the group dives into Nostalgia and the journey in front of them.
Nostalgia Tracklist:
Love to Death
Make Believe
Station Wagon
ON AND ON (Song for Jasmin)
Better of Me
Namaste
FINGER
Me & You
little mistake
Mano a Mano
Nostalgia
To Regret
Mother Mother 2025 Tour Dates:
*Newly announced date
^Supporting Muse
Jun 27 Stockholm, Sweden STHLM Fields^
Jun 28 St. Gallen, Switzerland OpenAir St. Gallen Festival
Jun 30 Vienna, Austria Simm City*
Jul 1 Budapest, Hungary Akvarium NagyHall*
Jul 3 Werchter, Belgium Rock Werchter
Jul 4 Gdynia, Poland Open’er Festival
Jul 7 Stuttgart, Germany Im Wizemann*
Jul 8 Tilburg, Netherlands 013 Poppodium*
Jul 10 Madrid, Spain Mad Cool Festival
Jul 11 Lisbon, Portugal NOS Alive
Jul 13 Berlin, Germany Lollapalooza Berlin
Jul 16 London, UK O2 Academy Brixton*
Jul 18 Frankfurt, Germany Batschkapp*
Jul 19 Paris, France Lollapalooza Paris
Jul 22 Istanbul, Turkey Maximum Uniq Open-Air*
