Zoh Amba, recently announced  the release their debut album Eyes Full, out June 5th, via Matador Records. Today, the artist is sharing  album title track, a song about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why. It’s accompanied by a video directed by Grace Bader Conrad, featuring Amba and album musicians Jim White (drums) and Kevin Hyland (electric guitar).

Following their show at New York’s Nightclub 101 previewing songs from the new album and performing in Coachella as part of Iggy Pop’s band, Zoh Amba today also announces a run of UK, European and North American headline and festival dates. The European leg kicks off October 29th at Rockomotives Festival in France and includes UK stops in Bristol, London, Manchester and Glasgow. Prior to
that, they will tour the US throughout the summer supporting Folk Bitch Trio and Courtney Barnett.

Amba’s songs circles the idea of seeing and being seen. The record looks closely at the lives of working-class folk in small towns who bust their asses off while trying to find any salvation they can. “I hope these songs touch people’s hearts,” Amba says. “They’re about people who really need to be seen and heard.” For years, Amba tried to find an identity outside of where they came from. Raised in the mountain towns of Tennessee, they left at seventeen for San Francisco, then moved to New York City soon after. Yet no matter how far they traveled, home always wrapped itself around their ankle. “When you try to run from something it ends up catching up to you,” they say now, speaking in a thick Southern drawl they no longer attempt to hide. “And you have to deal with it.”

Eyes Full was tracked live at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, an hour from Amba’s hometown, with no overdubs. Their best friend Kevin Hyland plays electric guitar, while drummer Jim White, whom Amba met on the streets of New York years earlier and now calls the closest thing they’ve had to a family, plays drums. The three musicians rehearsed relentlessly, playing together all day, every day.

“Southern Soil” is the song with the most stakes. “When that song finally came to me, I was like oh shit. I could have cried, It was a feeling I had been trying to get to the bottom of their entire life: the reason their heart would swell at a show only to deflate again once they returned to the hotel room. Writing it filled and emptied them at once. Addressed to the people who first taught them what could and couldn’t be said, it confronts the silence that shaped much of their young life.”

Zoh Amba
Eyes Full
Tracklisting
Matador Records

1. OCD
2. Another Time
3. Dead End Street
4. Thousand Years
5. Southern Soil
6. Eyes Full
7. Blueberry Thorn
8. Emahoy
9. Weed Eating
10.Odd Jobs
11. Child You’ll See
12.PG Tips
13.Smile With Your Eyes

Zoh Amba 2026 Tour Dates

Apr. 17 – New York City, NY @ Nightclub 101 w/ Superfan
May 7 – Asheville, NC @ Revival %
May 8 – Atlanta, GA @ Vinyl %
May 9 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room %
May 11 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall %
May 12 – Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom %
May 13 – Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Company %
June 27 – Spring Creek, NC @ Lightning Bug Festival
Aug. 11 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater & Ballroom #
Aug. 12 – Pittsburg, PA @ Roxian Theatre #
Aug. 14 – Cincinnati, OH / Newport, KY @ Megacorp Pavillion #
Aug. 15 – Kansas City, MO @ The Truman #
Aug. 18 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo #
Aug. 19 – Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square #
Aug. 21 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom #
Aug. 22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at the Complex #
Aug. 24 – Sacramento, CA @ Channel 24 #
Aug. 26 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore #
Aug. 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore #
Aug. 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium #

% w/ Folk Bitch Trio
# w/ Courtney Barnett

Pre-order Eyes Full by Zoh Amba HERE