Arcade Hearth gas hypothesis of recent music with announcement teaser

Arcade Hearth have fuelled hypothesis of recent music with an announcement due right now (April 4) heralded with the identify ‘Circle Of Belief’.

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Final month (March 6), the Canadian indie rock band obtained followers speaking after they made some drastic modifications to their social media pages – on Instagram, this included wiping all of their posts and importing a brand new profile image, bio and web site hyperlink.

Since then, it has included a bio with the cryptic message “It’s the yr of the snake so let your coronary heart break”, together with a profile image with the phrase “TRUST” in all-caps written in a circle. Again in 2022, the band eliminated all of their Instagram posts and altered the paintings on the web page within the lead-up to them saying their sixth studio album ‘WE’.

Right now, the band shared a video which reveals an unseen particular person finger-painting “TRUST” on the again of a tambourine – accompanied by a caption that factors to an announcement at 5pm Central Time (11pm UK time). “See you at 5pm central within the Circle of Belief”, it reads.

In March, upon the Instagram profile revamp, eagle-eyed followers observed the variety of posts shared by the band on Tales as effectively, with many taking to social media to invest what might be within the works. These tales have included photographs of the band members, followers, nature and extra, all with the identical luminous pink tint as seen within the paintings.

“I’m attempting to determine what I’m ,” one fan wrote on Reddit, whereas one other added: “That is Win as he was dressed yesterday. If they simply shot a music video, we received’t get to see it within the subsequent few days”.

“Circle Of Belief, 99 per cent positive that’s the album identify. So excited,” a 3rd shared, whereas another person chimed in: “It could be cool in the event that they did a full album drop this time round. I can’t think about they count on something however negativity within the media surrounding new singles and an upcoming album. A shock launch looks as if one thing a bit totally different from them.”

This isn’t the primary time in 2025 that the band have been getting followers speaking, resulting in hypothesis a few new marketing campaign rollout.

In direction of the beginning of the yr frontman Win Butler teamed up with David Byrne and St. Vincent for a rendition of David Bowie‘s ‘Heroes’ throughout the Fiftieth-anniversary celebrations of Saturday Evening Dwell. The band additionally introduced a one-off present at Excessive Water in South Carolina, going down subsequent month.

In addition to that, final spring noticed Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara announce a handful of reveals to rejoice the Twentieth-anniversary of their 2004 album ‘Funeral’.

If the brand new teasers on-line do become a brand new album from Arcade Hearth, it’ll mark their first since 2022’s ‘WE’.

It would even be their first new report since allegations of sexual misconduct arose towards frontman Win Butler. 4 folks got here ahead to accuse the singer of inappropriate behaviour, and the accusations additionally led to Feist leaving the ‘WE’ tour early.

Butler replied to the allegations in a prolonged assertion of his personal, claiming he was “very sorry to anybody who I’ve harm with my behaviour” however sustaining that “these relationships had been all consensual”.