Dummy Announce New Album 'Do You Love the Color of the Sky?' and Share Lead Single
Los Angeles band Dummy announced their third album, Do You Love the Color of the Sky?, on 13 August 2026, with an October 16 release date set via Polyvinyl. The duo — Alex Ewell and Emma Maatman — also shared the album's lead single, "Full Spectrum Dominance," the same day.
The album follows 2024's Free Energy, which was released on 6 September of that year through Trouble In Mind Records. The new record marks a label move to Polyvinyl and was co-produced by Dummy and Joo-Joo Ashworth, according to Stereogum and Clash.
Do You Love the Color of the Sky? is a ten-track album that moves through dream pop, breakbeat, and trip-hop, as reported by Pitchfork. Its themes are pointedly contemporary: the climate crisis, artificial intelligence, and the spread of surveillance. The lead single, "Full Spectrum Dominance," sits squarely in that frame — Clash describes the track as a commentary on artificial intelligence. It arrived with a 3D-animated music video built from found imagery and motion graphics.
The full tracklist is: April Limousine, Alluvial Fan, Full Spectrum Dominance, Squeaky Wheel, Touch the Perfect Speed, Song of Mana, Omen Globe, C.B.B.S.I.M.M.P.W.M., N of 1, and Heaven's What You Make of It.
Dummy will take the album on the road this autumn with a North American tour that includes a hometown show in Los Angeles on 4 November, as confirmed by Pitchfork.
What gives the record its particular shape is the way those anxieties — climate, AI, surveillance — are channelled through genres more often associated with atmosphere than argument. Dream pop, breakbeat, and trip-hop are styles built on texture and groove, not manifestos. Dummy's choice to press those subjects through those forms gives the album a tension worth paying attention to, even before anyone hears the full ten tracks.
For listeners who came to the band through Free Energy, the new album arrives a little over two years later, on a new label, with a producer sharing the credit. For everyone else, 16 October is the date.
