Imaginary People are sharing new single “Five Days” The track is the latest single to be released from their forthcoming Alibi, available September 12. The new song follows “David’s Eyes” and “State Trooper,” a reimagined take on Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska classic, “Five Days”.

Frontman Dylan Von Wagner on the song:

“I’d like to comment on being in a band. Typically I bring in a sketch of a song and we’ll spend months/hours fucking around in the dark until you find its core. ‘Five Days’ in particular is a testament to the band dynamic and once we found the beat and cadence the rest of the arrangement became concrete. A band that’s been writing for years equals an understanding of its vital organs and function. You get a system that really has no explanation, just Jedi songcraft.”

Alibi, was recorded with producer Phil Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Nick Murphy, Cass McCombs) at Rivington 66 in New York City and Spillway Sound in the Catskills, and mixed by Eli Crews at Brooklyn’s Figure 8. Written during what frontman Dylan Von Wagner calls a “cultural civil war,” the record channels the disorientation and emotional toll of a world where norms no longer apply.

“I just think we’re in an ultimate fight right now,” explains the singer. “Our culture is just falling apart and the ins and outs of our cultural differences are splitting – it feels like what one person says is right and what the other person says is wrong and that’s it. The whole time we were doing the record, it just felt like normalcy was falling apart. The things you’d think would normally be right and wrong – the normal yesses and nos – aren’t happening anymore, and that was very disturbing to me.”

Von Wagner’s vocals on tracks like “It’s Simple” – written moments after the Stoneman Douglas shooting – capture a profound personal and societal unease. “Bronx Girl” offers fragile romanticism, while “Neon Age” critiques curated digital personas. Lead single “Hometown” mourns the loss of identity to suburban sprawl and capitalism’s flattening touch.

“Imaginary People are just in our own little world,” says Von Wagner. “I don’t think we really participate. I mean we live in New York and it was made here, but we just keep to ourselves. I don’t know where this stuff comes from or why I feel this way and write this shit. I feel like it’s a weird addiction that I can’t shake, and I don’t think any psychoanalysis is going to shed light on it.”

Imaginary People
Alibi
Track List

1. It’s Simple
2. Renegade
3. Hometown
4. Soft Token
5. Bronx Girl
6. State Trooper
7. Crazy Eight
8. Neon Age
9. Five Days
10. David’s Eyes
11. Sun Change

Pre-order Alibi by Imaginary People HERE