This Is The Kit, recently announced their new album Ghost Coat will be released on January 15th, 2027, via Memphis Industries. The LP was recorded at Rockfield Studios (The Stone Roses, Motörhead) and friends and collaborators, including Richard Dawson, Sam Amidon, Ben Howard, guitarist brothers Valentin and Marceau Portron (of Portron Portron Lopez), and Emma Broughton AKA Blumi. Other voices include her long-standing bandmates Rozi Plain (bass, keys), Neil Smith (guitar), Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums, keys) and Jesse D. Vernon (guitar, keys).

“What are the things that we wish on. An eyelash? More than three skims of a stone? A folded crisp? What magical thinking do we employ in the hope that things will be OK and go our way. What repetitive behavior do we notice. How does it calm us down. How do we explain why things happened and then decide it’s OK to move on in life,” Stables says of the new single.

The ghostly garment referenced in the title of This Is The Kit’s latest album was inspired by a shadow cast by the staircase in Kate Stables’ new home. The phrase appeared in her head and has been echoing around it ever since, like echolalia. “Ghost coat” could refer to a layer, a garment, a disguise, a memory–a mysterious presence that guides and watches over us, though its intentions are unknown. Stables points to an eerie Ben Folds Five lyric describing a similar invisible force (“I’ve faith that there’s a soul somewhere / That’s leading me round / I wonder if she knows which way is down.”). This haunting presence sits at the heart of her tender and thoughtful seventh LP: a meditation on home (both at peace and under threat), her friendships, and her ever-expanding community.

Raised in Winchester, UK, Stables has lived in Paris for 20 years, but kept being drawn back to the imagery and myth-making of the place where she grew up. A reflection on homecoming, the song “Ghost Coat” references “votive candles from the altar… Cromwell and the pilgrims.” “Living in a cathedral city growing up, the building has got magic powers: some dark and scary, and some relating to community,” she explains. “I was interested in exploring our relationship with home. Where home is, or was, where we come from, where we’re going. Sometimes it’s just where you put your bag down, especially for someone who travels a lot. Maybe it’s less to do with a place, and more who you’re with–people that make you feel like you’re at home.”

It all comes back to the concept of home, and in particular the people we call home. “I hope listeners come away with a sense of shared experience,” says Stables. “I’m someone who is prone to disappearing into a sort of burrow, and it’s hard to know how to get out of the burrow. It’s important that we continue to interact with each other. It’s all about feeling a sense of community with other human beings out there.”

This is The Kit
Ghost Coat
Tracklist
Memphis Industries

1. Safety Valve
2. Skim a Stone
3. Catcher
4. Builders
5. Lamp Post
6. Ghost Coat
7. Tiny Eyes
8. Toad in the Hole
9. Fall Away
10. Lovely Grub
11. Fiver
12. Not Enough is Enough

This Is The Kit 2026-2027 Tour Dates:

11/20/26 – Geneva, CH – Les Créatives @ Salle Grand-Salève

11/21/26 – Vienna, AT – Bluebird Festival

12/13/26 – Bruges, BE – Duyster Festival @ Cactus

01/26/27 – Glasgow, UK – Celtic Connections @ Fruitmarket

01/30/27 – Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon

03/10/27 – Sheffield, UK – Crookes Social Club

03/11/27 – Gateshead, UK – The Glasshouse

03/12/27 – Liverpool, UK – Hangar34

03/13/27 – Coventry, UK – Coventry Central Library

03/14/27 – Cambridge, UK – Junction 1

03/23/27 – Kingston, NY – Tubbys

03/24/27 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge

03/25/27 – Boston, MA – Warehouse XI

03/26/27 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Showcase Lounge

03/27/27 – Montreal, QC – Fairmount

03/29/27 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison

03/30/27 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Arc

04/01/27 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival

04/04/27 – Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club

04/06/27 – Stoughton, WI – Stoughton Opera House

04/08/27 – Chicago, IL – Constellation Club

04/09/27 – Pittsburgh, PA – Warhol Theater

04/10/27 – Washington, DC – Songbyrd

04/23/27 – Schorndorf, DE – Manufaktur

04/24/27 – Zurich, CH – Bogen F

04/25/27 – Basel, CH – Kuppel

04/28/27 – Heidelberg, DE – Karlstorbahnhof

04/29/27 – Berlin, DE – Frannz Club

05/01/27 – Copenhagen, DK – Vega

05/02/27 – Hamburg, DE – Knust

05/04/27 – Paris, FR – Maroquinerie

05/06/27 – Antwerp, BE – De Roma

05/07/27 – Amsterdam, NL – Tolhuistuin

09/24/27 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory

09/25/27 – Galway, IE – Roisin Dubh

09/26/27 – Cork, IE – Live at St Luke’s

09/28/27 – Cardiff, UK – Tramshed

09/29/27 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club

09/30/27 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club

10/01/27 – Manchester, UK – New Century Hall

10/03/27 – Birmingham, UK – The Crossing

10/07/27 – London, UK – Roundhouse

pre-order Ghost Coat by This is The Kit HERE