Sub*T recently announced their debut album How My Own Voice Sounds will arrive on May 1st, 2026, along with the news, the duo have shared lead single “Overcomplicate.” “We see ‘Overcomplicate’ as the two sides of yourself talking to one another,” explains the NYC band of Grace Bennett and Jade Alcantara. “There’s a second whispered vocal layer in the bridge, which we feel represents the negative voice in someone’s head–the cynical one that you need to fight against.” How My Own Voice Sounds follows Sub*T’s 2024 EP Spring Skin, produced by Momma’s Aron Kobayashi Ritch.

How My Own Voice Sounds follows seven years of touring, writing, and rewriting. “We’ve spent a long time with a lot of these songs,” they explain. “We never really sat down with the intention of writing an album from the ground up, we’ve just been building our catalog for years.

“The album title itself is more of a statement, but it poses a question we’ve been asking ourselves since we first started our band,” Sub*T explains. “How does my own voice sound? Not in a literal way. We know that much. But how do I want to use it, what do I want to say, how do I want to express all the details of my life so that I can recognize the sound of my own voice and understand myself? This album represents all the ways you can answer that to ultimately hear yourself as you really are.”

Bennett and Alcantara each write on their own, but they often feel their songs come to life when voiced by the other. “I just feel like she can transform it in a way I couldn’t by myself,” Alcantara says of Bennett. “And when I hear it through her voice, I hear it in a different way. It’s almost like I gain confidence. Like, the lyrics can be great, but if it doesn’t make you feel the magic, it’s not ready.” Credit it to shared traumas or their years spent on stan Twitter vying for 1D and The 1975. While their tastes have evolved—they note Juliana Hatfield and Liz Phair as inspirations for both their writing.

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