GIFT, have announced their new album Frenzy For The Thrill, will drop on January 15th, 2027, on Captured Tracks, along with the news, the band have released lead-single and video, “Hand To The Flame.” Gift is comprised of TJ Freda, with Jessica Gurewitz (synths/vocals/guitar), Kallan Campbell (bass), Justin Hrabovsky (synths/guitar), and Gabe Camarano (drums).

GIFT began during the pandemic, with Freda holed up in Brooklyn, writing what would become the band’s 2022 debut Momentary Presence. Thee album and 2024’s Illuminator, while Freda battled panic attacks, most often seeking to counter anxiety with transcendence. Yet in the time before Frenzy For The Thrill, Freda found that particular metaphorical drug was no longer working. He gravitated towards grittier, angstier inspirations like ‘90s alt-rock, grunge, and brasher iterations of electronic music. Combined with the band having become a unit honed by rigorous touring, Freda wanted to create something more visceral and collaborative.

The tours behind Illuminator had left Freda ragged. When a friend offered to let him stay at their house in Los Angeles for two months, it seemed a perfect way to decompress, to take time and write songs for other people and put GIFT to the side for a bit. Instead, Freda arrived in Los Angeles as they tamed the final fires of early 2025, to a house full of ash and otherwise not much more than the instruments he brought with him. Moved by the renewal he saw in Angelenos coming together in the wake of the fires, Freda suddenly felt a creative outpouring.

New GIFT songs arrived, more angst-ridden than in the past, yet not without their own sense of release. They were vehicles in which Freda asked large, existential questions: Now entering his thirties, he had watched friends settle down, and yet found he was not done searching. “Making Frenzy For The Thrill was partially about exploring the balance of living as an artist without disappearing into it.” From despondence, Freda emerged with a revitalized sense of creative purpose and direction.

For the new album, Freda sought out electronic producer Teddy Mars, the mastermind behind Samples From Mars. With he and Freda sharing production duties, GIFT adopted the ethos and structure of dance music, but with the rest of the band contributing more than ever before.

Today, the band are sharing new single and album track “Hand To The Flame.” TJ comments, “”Hand To The Flame’ is holding onto passion, and what makes us human while the world falls apart. Desperately chasing passion in a passionless world. Like charging full speed towards something you know will eventually hurt you. Repeatedly putting your hand in the flame with the same outcome, knowing it will always be the same outcome but hoping it will be different. There’s romance in the chase, regardless of whether or not its going to hurt when you get to the end.”

There are lessons learned by the end of Frenzy For The Thrill, a sort of self-acceptance on the other side of the album’s violence. A healthier, more balanced life after staring into the void. “We’re always looking for resolutions, but life isn’t like that,” Freda concludes. “Frenzy For The Thrill is about still being in love with the chase knowing we might not find answers on the other side. This is the sound of us crashing headlong into the unknown.”

GIFT
Frenzy For The Thrill
Tracklist
Captured Tracks

1. See The Heavens
2. Hand To The Flame
3. The Fly
4. Every Step
5. Instant Rush
6. Come Back Down
7. Higher Than The Knife
8. I Wanna Be A Toy
9. I Wish I Met You In Another Life
10. Into Oblivion
11. Demon Inside

GIFT 2026-2027 Tour Dates:

Thu. Sep. 17 – Bristol, UK @ The Croft
Fri. Sep. 18 – Nottingham, UK @ The Bodega
Sat. Sep. 19 – Leeds, UK @ The Old Woollen
Sun. Sep. 20 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
Tue. Sep. 22 – Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete’s
Wed. Sep. 23 – Manchester, UK @ YES
Thu. Sep. 24 – London, UK @ The Lexington
Fri. Sep. 25 – Bedford, UK @ Esquires
Sat. Sep. 26 – Southampton, UK @ Heartbreakers
Thu. Oct. 29 – Lansing, MI @ Grewal Hall *
Sat. Oct. 31 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle *
Sun. Nov. 1 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *
Mon. Nov. 2 – Columbus, OH @ Skully’s *
Wed. Nov. 4 – Asbury Park, NJ @ House of Independents *
Thu. Nov. 5 – Richmond, VA @ Broadberry *
Fri. Nov. 6 – Asheville, NC @ Revival *
Sat. Nov. 7 – Chattanooga, TN @ Barrelhouse *
Tue. Nov. 10 – Houston, TX @ Secret Group *
Wed. Nov. 11 – Dallas, TX @ Puzzles *
Thu. Nov. 12 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music Hall *
Sun. Nov. 15 – Milwaukee, WI @ Argo *
Fri. Nov. 27 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace ^
Sat. Nov. 28 – Montreal, QB @ Theatre Fairmount ^
Mon. Nov. 30 – Boston, MA @ Sinclair ^
Wed. Dec. 2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw ^
Thu. Dec. 3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts ^
Fri. Dec. 4 – Washington, DC @ Atlantis ^
Sat. Dec. 5 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle ^
Mon. Dec. 7 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West ^
Tue. Dec. 8 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery @ The Mil ^
Wed. Dec. 9 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-FI ^
Thu. Dec. 10 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon ^
Fri. Dec. 11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club ^
Sat. Dec. 12 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall ^

* supporting Post Animal
^ supporting Temples

Pre-Order Frenzy For The Thrill by GIFT HERE