Upcoming single and LP release

The Melancholy Kings are excited to announce the upcoming release of their LP Her Favorite Disguise.

The long-awaited follow up to their eponymous debut album will come out on the Magic Door Record Label on November 28, 2025. LPs on vinyl will be available for purchase and the music will be available on all streaming channels.

The first single and video from the album, Bitcoin Elegy will be released on all video and music streaming channels on September 28, 2025.

Like The Melancholy Kings’ debut album, Her Favorite Disguise once again taps into the vicissitudes of life in and among the shadows of Gotham. From Astor Place, which recounts the too-familiar tale of suburban exodus to the Jersey promised land, to Bitcoin Elegy’s musings on isolation in the digital age; from UV’s post-modern homage to the mysterious V replete with whooping incantations and a rollicking trumpet solo from musical guest, Mac Gollehon (David Bowie, Duran Duran, Hall and Oates (and many others)), to the lonely tale in New Girl of a man hopelessly in love with a film noir siren, Her Favorite Disguise both celebrates and cringes at the rich tapestry of life’s follies in the Big Apple and its homely step-sister across the Hudson, all the while rocking with a quiet intensity recalling the rough-hewn insouciance of 80s, pre-grunge alt-rock.

The first single, Bitcoin Elegy, is a guitar-driven rocker about the inevitable decline of meaningful personal relationships in the digital age.  Not an elegy about bitcoin; bitcoin is the marker for the post-analog world and the elegy is about the loss of interpersonal community.  With gratuitous references to Yeats and King Canute.