Apparat, the project of multi-artist Sascha Ring has announced his new LP A Hum Of Maybe, will drop via Mute Records (Depeche Mode) on February 20, 2026, the album is the follow-up to his 2019 album LP5.

A Hum Of Maybe is a described by the artist as a deeply personal album, one that carries the weight of the years that have passed since his last album, 2019’s LP5. The album took form after a long period of writer’s block, where his connection to music seemed lost, buried deep, untraceable. To break this block, he challenged himself with a radical resolution: to come up with one idea for a song every day, free from pressure, judgement and the pursuit of perfection, it didn’t matter how undeveloped or incomplete the sketches were. Gradually, this new daily routine had a therapeutic effect, helping him to regain his confidence in himself and his musical process.

Today, Ring shares “An Echo Skips A Name (Alternate Take).” The track is about how a relationship can grow distant, so gradually that the change goes almost unnoticed. Ring calls it a “gentle fade of recognition.”

At its core A Hum Of Maybe is about love – for himself, his wife and his daughter – and about holding onto it, protecting it and constantly recalibrating, as it is in a constant state of flux. Working on the lyrics helped him focus on what was important to him in the midst of all the turmoil. As the album title suggests, the songs are about being stuck in between, not a clear yes or no, but A Hum Of Maybe. “It’s a ‘maybe’ that is not weakness, but a space where things can grow,” explains Ring. The album embraces a state of limbo, where there are no longer any unbreakable certainties or clear answers, only a multitude of simultaneities and intermediate states. Not or, but and: Analogue and digital. One and zero. Micro and macro. Light and shadow. “The hum is that undercurrent of potential – the in-between, where life actually happens.”

The album was created with the help of long time collaborators, who will also be performing with him at upcoming live shows: Philipp Johann Thimm (cello, piano, guitar), who also co-wrote and co-produced the album, Christoph “Mäckie” Hamann (violin, keyboard, bass), Jörg Wähner (drums), and Christian Kohlhaas (trombone). In addition, Armenian-American singer KÁRYYN features on “Tilth,” and Berlin-and Rome-based musician Jan-Philipp Lorenz (aka Bi Disc) on “Pieces, Falling.”

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A Hum Of Maybe
Track listing
Mute Records

1. Glimmerine
2. A Slow Collision
3. Gravity Test
4. Tilth Feat. KÁRYYN
5. Hum Of Maybe
6. An Echo Skips A Name
7. Enough For Me
8. Lunes
9. Williamsburg
10. Pieces, Falling – w/ Bi Disc
11. Recalibration

Apparat 2026 Tour Dates

1/27 – Munich (DE), Alte Kongresshalle
1/28 – Vienna (AT), Arena Wien
1/29 – Zúrich (CH), Rote Fabrik
1/30 – Leipzig (DE), Werk 2 – Halle A
1/31 – Berlin (DE), Huxleys
2/3 – London (UK), HERE at Outernet
2/4 – Paris (FR), Le Trabendo – SOLD OUT
2/5 – Amsterdam (NL), Paradiso
2/6 – Ghent (BE), De Vooruit – SOLD OUT
4/9 – Budapest (HU), Dürer Kert
4/10 – Belgrade (RS), MTS Dvorana
4/15 – Milan (IT), Alcatraz Milano
4/16 – Rome (IT), Sala Sinopoli, Auditorium Parco della Musica
4/18 – Gdansk (PL), Stary Manez
4/19 – Wrocław (PL), A2 Centrum Koncertowe
6/6/ – Katowice (PL), Tauron Festival
7/3/ – Beuningen (NL), Down the Rabbit Hole Festival

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