Sweet Pill

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Sweet Pill live in Germany with new album for five concerts in June

It starts like an indie movie about youthful recklessness and big dreams: five students from New Jersey buy a discarded school bus, fill it with bunk beds and set off for Texas. Their destination: the legendary South by Southwest festival in Austin. But when Sweet Pill arrive there in 2020, the world is in lockdown. Pandemic. Lockdown. The festival canceled. On the return journey, the bus breaks down in Baton Rouge, leaving the band stranded on the side of the highway for several days before they make it back to Philadelphia. A road movie without a happy ending - for the time being. This crash landing resulted in their debut "Where the Heart Is", recorded at Gradwell House studio with producer Matt Weber and released in 2021 on emo institution label Topshelf Records. It's an album about closeness and new beginnings, about searching for a home in a world that doesn't offer one. The song "High Hopes" even ends up on Hayley Williams' podcast, an accolade from the Paramore cosmos. From then on, the audience grew organically, tour after tour, first as support for bands like La Dispute or The Wonder Years, later as headliners. Live, Sweet Pill unleash the kind of power that can only be guessed at on record. Singer Zayna Youssef tosses her voice between tenderness and loss of control, guitar lines spiral into each other, rhythm and melody collide and reconcile again. It's that moment in the club when everything tips over: between emo and hardcore, pop and catharsis. You can understand why the band wanted to record their new material the way it feels on stage: raw, direct, sweaty. The EP "Starchild" marked the beginning of a new chapter for indie veterans Hopeless Records in 2024. Now the second album "Still There's A Glow" will follow on March 13, 2026. The lead single "No Control" is a confessional song about self-doubt and self-sabotage, about the feeling of losing yourself. Youssef sings about depression, therapy and the courage to break bad patterns. The band discarded almost an entire album of demos in order to start again: For the first time, everything was created collectively, out of the dynamic of Youssef, Jayce Williams, Sean McCall, Ryan Cullen and Chris Kearney. "Still There's A Glow" is therefore more than just a second album. It is a document of self-assurance. The songs blaze, smoulder, burn down, and yet leave an ember behind. One that warms. After an extensive US and Canadian tour in spring 2026, Sweet Pill will be coming to Germany for five concerts in the summer of the same year. A band that was once stranded on a school bus has finally arrived on the stages for which it was always intended.