Boy Harsher will release their new album Get Mean on September 18th via Atlantic Records. The LP is a meditation on love, loss, and survival. On the forthcoming LP, the duo comprised of Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, confronts grief and heartbreak head-on, tracing the difficult process of moving through loss and discovering a path toward renewal.

Ahead of Get Mean’s arrival, Boy Harsher shares the new single and music video “Hard Beat.” The music video was directed by Boy Harsher with cinematographer Owen Smith-Clark and explores themes of surveillance, deviance, and trauma with influence from Helmut Newton’s 1995 “High and Mighty” feature and the queer punk of Greg Araki’s films. The video sees a pair of freaky deviants, played by Cheeky Ma and Mo Stark, speeding down an uncanny highway in a vintage Cadillac. Matthews, in a funeral veil, narrates from the backseat. Meanwhile, a woman in a leg brace, played by Angel Zinovieff, is being recorded on closed circuit in a windowless tiled room. The movement in the video was choreographed by performance artist Monica Mirabile (FLUCT).

Beyond the music, Boy Harsher continues to expand their cinematic ambitions. They are currently at work on their debut feature film, The Lonely Woman, starring Chloë Sevigny, FKA twigs, and Sturgill Simpson.

In early 2024, following years of increasingly well-received releases, and extensive worldwide touring, Boy Harsher confronted the most profound test of its existence: the end of its members’ relationship. In the wake of the breakup, which arrived on the heels of a period of personal turmoil, familial loss, and creative block, the future of the band was mired in uncertainty and the notion of new music impossibly remote. It wasn’t until Matthews hit the road – sounding out her shifting identity and staring down the loneliness beneath the skies of West Texas, the Pacific Northwest, South Florida and points in-between, over and under, and off the map entirely – that the writing of a new Boy Harsher record began to come together.

Joe Matthews on Get Mean: “what I had to give during the most extreme period of my life.” And no doubt – the radical destabilization, the all-consuming doubt, the desperate drive to escape, all of these qualities are palpable on a record as transportive and multitextured as this. It’s not for nothing, after all, that GET MEANis Boy Harsher’s “road album,” one recorded in eight locations across the USA and through to Mexico and Italy such that the listener can feel the Florida scrub, the icy Northwest rivers, the grit of the highway rumble strip. There’s also something else, though, a feeling no less drawn from pain and confusion but given new life across an album that mourns, begs, jokes, and flirts its way out of the dislocation, out of the rootlessness and alienation and through to a place of abandon, of purification, of dancefloor catharsis. It’s like Matthews tells us in “Hard Beat,” careening in the inimitable Boy Harsher fashion between confession, exhortation, and proud self-reclamation: not just “I FEEL HIGH / WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE LOW,” but also—“LET’S MAKE IT REAL.”

Boy Harsher
Get Mean
Atlantic Records

1. Ronny
2. Jeans
3. Break Me
4. Tough Luck (When You Don’t Call)
5. Faulty
6. Coming Home
7. Hard Beat
8. Ice Pick (Walk Away)
9. Ivy’s Spiral
10. Pray 4 Me
11. Falling ~
12. Bleed

Boy Harsher 2026 Tour Dates

9/25 – Hudson, NY @ Basilica
9/27 – Boston, MA @ Royale
9/29 – Montreal, QC @ M Telus
9/30 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
10/01 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic
10/02 – Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT
10/03 – Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT
10/04 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
10/06 – Denver, CO @ Summit
10/09 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall SOLD OUT
10/10 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall SOLD OUT
10/11 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox SOLD OUT
10/12 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
10/13 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl SOLD OUT
10/15 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
10/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium SOLD OUT
10/17 – Del Mar, CA @ The Sound
10/18 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory Festival Grounds^ SOLD OUT
10/20 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
10/21 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren
10/24 – Fort Worth, TX @ Sick New World*
10/26 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic
10/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
10/28 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
10/30 – Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
10/31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Making Time*
11/05 – New York, NY @ Knockdown Center

*= festival date
^= supporting TURNSTILE

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