- 2026-02-12
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MUSIC
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Bleachers Announces New Album “everyone for ten minutes”, Premieres New Song “you and forever” on BBC Radio 1
American rock band Bleachers, consisting of Jack Antonoff (lead vocals/guitar/bass/keyboards), Evan Smith (keyboards), Mikey Freedom Hart (guitar), Sean Hutchinson (drums), Mike Riddleberger (drums) and Zem Audu (keyboards/saxophone), has announced their upcoming fifth studio album “everyone for ten minutes” will be released on May 22, 2026 via Dirty Hit.
It is their first album in two years, following the 2024 self-titled album.
The album comprises 11 tracks, written and produced by Jack Antonoff. The album title was inspired by an AirDrop message that appeared on a smartphone, displaying “everyone for ten minutes.”
From the album, the band premiered a new song “you and forever” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is accompanied by the Alex Lockett-directed music video, featuring the band frontman Jack Antonoff's wife Margaret Qualley. It was written and produced by Jack Antonoff.
Jack Antonoff told about the song, “I always try and write love songs. And then they always end up being about how life is a little bit more tolerable because you love someone. This is all the things that make my life impossible, and because of that, because I have you, like, I can deal with it.”- He continued, “You ever do, like analysis or therapy? That feeling when you're in there and you're like chatting and you're still kind of bubbling on that, like making the thing you're talking about feel palatable. But there's like, a thing that if you were just like, face to face with God. I remember, I try to remember that always when I'm writing, which is sort of like, if it's not that it's not worth it. And this song specifically is about, like, I have someone I love. And Jesus, man, there's so many people, or not even people, just so many forces out there trying to, like, pull the joy and the heart out of things, especially nowadays, and I feel like my humanity, like, bursting through in a way that's uncomfortable.”
He added, “That's why I like it as a first single. I feel like in many ways, and maybe that's that explosion. But like, it's just this, like, clearing of anything as I go into a new album for the people I'm actually talking to. Because we're surrounded, like, there's, like, there's who you care about, and then there's everything else. And I just, whenever I make music, I just go, like that.” -
Jack Antonoff said of the album, “The album's called 'everyone for 10 minutes'. On your phone, when you're on AirDrop, you can see that it says everyone for 10 minutes. Saw that. I was like, 'Wow. The machine knows that AirDrop can't be available to everyone always.' Because we would get flooded. I was like, how interesting. What a beautiful sort of bit of armor that is built in for us same way. There's that study you can only really care for 125 people. Personally, it's like there's limits to this thing. And I am obsessively zeroing in on my people and my sound and my just my world. At different points in my life when I was less sure of what I was doing, I felt more rage and more misunderstood. And I always feel that towards the general public, but with my audience now, it's a bit like church. It's like we know what this is. So I don't need to give you a performance of like my mental breakdown. You have that in the album. You have that you know me. So it feels like the way my family and I talk, it's like there's such an underlying intensity of things we've been through, but then we kind of pass the time with, like, a lot of jokes.”
Photo by Alex Lockett - source : BBC Radio 1
