OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE

The new album Icarus Ascending drops on your favorite streaming music service Friday, Nov. 7, 2025.

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PRESS RELEASE (Excerpt)

Reclusive soul rocker Buggy Jive set to release new album Icarus Ascending inspired by 'emergence' from basement studio. October 2025.

“It's still not what one would call a traditionally acoustic album, as sonically it’s more organic that the one-dude-in-a-home-studio sound of his previous albums. But from the acoustic punk funk tongue-in-cheek opening track and first single ‘This Will Never Be On the Radio’ to the closing, anthemic title track ‘Icarus Ascending,’ the album still shines with Buggy Jive's signature literary soul rock crafted with heart and humor.”

SNEAK PREVIEW: SINGLES + B-SIDES

CREDITS

Guitars and keys and vox and stuff performed by Buggy Jive. All songs copyright 2025 by Bryan Paul Thomas. Drums produced by Yurt Rock. Mastered by Troy Pohl. This album borrows its title from “Amelia” by Joni Mitchell. “Now I Pray You” is based on Canto 26 of the Purgatory by Dante Alighieri. “At the Violet Hour” is inspired by “The Waste Land“ by T.S. Eliot. Interior art is a remix of “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Breugel the Elder, from a photograph by Sailko of the original framed painting. Icarus Ascending copyright 2025 WT3 Records and Radical Plastical Music. All Rights Reserved.

TRACKLIST

This Will Never Be on the Radio - 3:28
When the Thang Ain’t Enough - 4:11
Whatchyugondo? - 4:58
This Can Not Be That - 4:18
What Do Y’all Know About Shakespeare? - 4:14
Great Googly Moogly - 2:40
Doing the Dumb Thing - 3:40 [EXPLICIT]
At the Violet Hour - 4:50
Now I Pray You - 4:17
We Colonize the Skies - 3:12 [EXPLICIT]
Staying Out of Her Way - 4:15
Something Something America - 4:01
Icarus Ascending - 4:42

Icarus Ascending