John Maus will his new album Later Than You Think, the album explores themes of grief, justice, rebirth, transformation, and spiritual warfare, melding into a work of confession and confrontation: an aural metaphysics where affect, intellect, and spirit converge in search of the beautiful, the truth and the real. Later Than You Think will be released On September 26th, 2025 via a Young (FKA Twigs, Sampha).

Today Maus shares the opening track from the album, “Because We Built It,” a song that expresses the burden of collective guilt and the need for radical transformation of unjust systems. If the project’s first single, “I Hate Antichrist,” found Maus in spiritual confrontation, this new track follows the road to reckoning and the glimmers of reconstruction.

Maus will embark on a 45-day tour across North America and Europe, performing headline shows and appearing at several major festivals including C2C (Turin), End of the Road (UK), and MIRA (Barcelona). Embracing imperfection and emotional rawness, Maus’ live performances are acts of radical embodiment – leaning into a postmodern sincerity that feels increasingly vital in a culture stalled by irony and apathy.

On John Maus

Holding a degree in experimental music from CalArts and a PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii, Maus has been dubbed a “philosopher pop star” and “analog futurist” for the way he merges academic rigor with lo-fi synth-pop aesthetics. His influence spans genres and generations—from UK grime icon Skepta, who sampled his track “I’m Only Human,” and Gen-Z rapper nettspend, to filmmaker Josh Safdie, actor Natasha Lyonne, and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. His track “Cop Killer” features in the 2025 film Friendship.

John Maus has released five albums in his career, including Songs (2006), Love Is Real (2007), We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011), Screen Memories (2017) and Addendum (2018).

John Maus
Later Than You Think
YOUNG

1. Because We Built It
2. Disappears
3. Reconstruct Your Life
4. Shout
5. Came & Got
6. I Hate Antichrist
7. Theotokos
8. Let The Time Fly
9. Out Of Time
10. Tous Les Gens Qui Sont Ici Sont D’ici
11. Tonight
12. Let Me Through
13. Water
14. Pick Me Up
15. Losing Your Mind
16. Adorabo

John Maus 2025 Tour Dates:

June 24 – Landmark – Bergen, Norway
June 25 – Oceanen – Gothenburg, Sweden *SOLD OUT
June 27 – This Is Not A Love Song (Festival) – Nîmes, France
June 29 – Fusion (Festival) – Lärz, Germany
July 15 – Sonsdenit 25 – Pollença, Spain
July 20 – Dour (Festival) – Dour, Belgium
July 31 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, New York *SOLD OUT
August 6 – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever – Los Angeles, California *SOLD OUT
August 21 – Trädgården – Stockholm, Sweden
August 23 – Rock en Seine (Festival) – Paris, France
August 28 – Hayfilm Cluster, Yerevan, Armenia
August 31 – End of the Road (Festival) – Dorset, England
September 2 – Estonian National Museum – Tartu, Estonia
September 3 – Vagonu Hall – Riga, Latvia
September 4 – Kablys – Vilnius, Lithuania
September 6 – Extreme Chill (Festival) – Reykjavík, Iceland
September 9 – Akvárium Klub – Budapest, Hungary
September 10 – Vintage Industrial – Zagreb, Croatia
September 11 – Zappa Barka – Belgrade, Serbia
September 13 – Plissken (Festival) – Athens, Greece
September 26 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY
September 28 – Green Room – Minneapolis, MN
September 29 – Outset – Chicago, IL
September 30 – The Loving Touch – Ferndale, MI
October 1 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON
October 3 – Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
October 6 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
October 7 – The Broadberry – Richmond, VA
October 8 – The Underground – Charlotte, NC
October 9 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
October 11 – Conduit – Winter Park, FL
October 12 – Gramps – Miami, FL
October 14 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
October 15 – Empire Control Room & Garage – Austin, TX
October 16 – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall – Dallas, TX
October 18 – Insideout – Albuquerque, NM
October 19 – Walter Studios – Phoenix, AZ
October 20 – The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
October 22 – The Belasco – Los Angeles, CA
October 23 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
October 25 – The Wall at AREA15 – Las Vegas, NV
November 1 – C2C Festival – Turin, Italy
November 3 – O2 Kentish Town Forum – London, UK
November 4 – Academy 2 – Manchester, UK
November 5 – Simple Things – Bristol, UK
November 7 – MIRA Festival – Barcelona, Spain
November 8 – Capitólio – Lisbon, Portugal
November 10 – Plaza – Zurich, Switzerland
November 12 – TRIX – Antwerp, Belgium
November 14 – L’Aéronef – Lille, France
November 15 – Espace Julien – Marseille, France
November 17 – Kwadrat – Kraków, Poland
November 18 – Oczki – Warsaw, Poland
November 19 – CBE – Cologne, Germany
November 20 – 013 – Tilburg, Netherlands
November 22 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 23 – Astra – Berlin, Germany
November 24 – Uebel & Gefährlich – Hamburg, Germany
November 26 – Stereolux – Nantes, France
November 27 – L’Étage – Rennes, France
November 29 – Le Cargo – Caen, France
December 2 – Amager Bio – Copenhagen, Denmark
December 4 – TBA – Paris, France
December 6 – Button Factory – Dublin, Ireland
December 9 – Òran Mór Auditorium – Glasgow, UK

Pre-order Later Than You Think HERE