Seattle band Jupe Jupe have shared new single “A Game Of Wait and See.” The track is off their forthcoming album King Of Sorrows available February 27 via No-Count Records.

Jupe Jupe on “A Game Of Wait and See:”

“”A Game of Wait and See’ is an efficient, urgent, danceable darkwave song, perfect for all who wrestle with ambiguity. Whether it’s a year from now or an hour from now, the uncertainty of outcomes can be unsettling the deeper we invest in the need and desire for something.

“A Game of Wait and See” jumps out at the top with a synth call and a guitar response, 155 bpm high-hat & kick pattern familiar to anyone who has stayed at a club much later than expected, and two basses: one pulsing synth and one deep accenting string. The vocals take us through the storm and stress of me-culture. Who among us hasn’t opened a hole inside themselves? We’ve invited in a type of pain that comes from attention seeking/confirming software. Maybe we didn’t realize just how poisonous this syrupy social bunkum is. Maybe we can’t yet see the extent of rot on the cords that tether us.

But when the speed of social stimuli overwhelms the time lag of validation the pain can be insidious. Slowly making the monsters out in the world less scary than the monsters in the mirror. What if they aren’t watching me? With outcomes unknown we can only wait and see.”

Their new full-length is an urgent eight-song set, darker, more angular, more concise, and more direct. King of Sorrows lives in a sonic universe shaped by The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Depeche Mode, melding vintage analog synths, low-bit samplers, and grainy Mellotrons with fresh tribal drums, driving bass, cutting guitars, and mournful saxophone. Anchoring it all is a rich baritone vocal delivering emotive, shadow-facing lyrics, grappling with power, prideful ignorance, wounded egos, and the darker corners of the self.

Jupe Jupe features My Young (vocals, synths), Bryan Manzo (guitar, bass, saxophone), Patrick Partington (guitar), and Jarrod Arbini (drums, percussion). The band is joined once again by collaborators Evan Foster and Matt Bayles. Foster (The Boss Martians, Dirty Sidewalks, The Sonics) engineered the record at No-Count Studios in Seattle, and Bayles (Minus the Bear; producer for Botch, Mastodon, Nox Novacula, Murder City Devils, and Isis) mixed it at Red Room in Seattle.

Jupe Jupe 2025 tour Dates

December 20 – Shoreline, WA @ The Hidden Door

pre-order King of Sorrows by Jupe Jupe HERE