M(h)aol announce their new album Something Soft will drop on May 16 via Merge Records. Ahead of the album’s release, the band is sharing their latest single, “DM:AM,” along with an accompanying video. M(h)aol has also announced U.S. tour dates in New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle, and they will perform at this year’s SXSW Music Festival.

On the new single ‘DM:AM’, the band says, “This song is about men DM’ing women online and then getting aggressive when they don’t get the response they want. They quickly turn to insults about the women, and then once the woman says she’ll expose what they’ve done, she gets a laundry list of reasons why he behaves like this and how much he has to lose, which is meant to make the women feel sorry for them.”

Something Soft was recorded by Jamie Hyland (who has also worked with Gilla Band, Lambrini Girls’ debut, The Psychotic Monks). It is the most technically nimble of M(h)aol’s recordings to date, with the band – joined by Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra’s Sarah Deegan on bass – decamping to Dublin’s Ailfionn Studio where they took advantage of the space and studio equipment to bring more nuance to their sound.


M(h)aol applies a DIY ethos to all aspects of the band. Attachment Styles and Gender Studies were originally released on TULLE, an independent women-led record label focused on working with and for underrepresented voices in music co-founded by Constance Keane.

M(h)aol
Something Soft
Track List

1. Pursuit
2. I Miss My Dog
3. You Are Temporary, But the Internet Is Forever
4. DM:AM
5. E8/N16
6. Vin Diesel
7. Clementine
8. Snare
9. IBS
10. 1800-Call-Me-Back
11. Coda

M(h)aol 2025 North American Tour Dates

March 9 – Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye
March 12 – Austin, TX @ High Noon – Paste Magazine Showcase (4:20 set time)
March 12 – Austin, TX @ Hole in the Wall – Hoedown Throwdown
March 13 – Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas – Rough Trade Publishing Party (3pm set time)
March 13 – Austin, TX @ 13th Floor – Don Giovanni Showcase (12am set time)
March 14 – Austin, TX @ The Dead Rabbit – Full Irish Breakfast (3:30 pm set time)
March 14 – Austin, TX @ Zilker Brewing – Utopia Fest
March 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records
March 17 – Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project

Pre-order Soft Spot HERE