After previewing new music with four track EP, The Grand Designer, Adrian Sherwood will release a new full-length work on August 22, 2025, titled The Collapse Of Everything, his first solo album in 13 years and only the fourth in his long career.

The Collapse Of Everything sees Sherwood move beyond the mixing desk and take centre stage, pushing his sound into new frontiers. The Collapse of Everything is being released on clear 12” LP vinyl, black 12” LP vinyl, CD, as digital download, and via streaming services.

As well as the release of a new album, Sherwood will be performing for the first time as a solo artist, and touring with his own live band. The live show, which will premiere this autumn at the ‘Dub sessions 20th anniversary’ in Japan, includes long-time collaborator Doug Wimbish (Living Color, The Sugar Hill Gang, Tackhead), Alex White (Primal Scream, Fat White Family) and Mark Bandola (The Lucy Show). The UK debut will be a London show in February 2026 to be announced soon. Sherwood will also be touring in North America, Australia and Europe in 2026.

Sherwood has not only released solo records, but also acted as a band member of groups such as Tackhead, and been the creative force behind the long-running On-U Sound label. The Collapse of Everything fuses a wide range of influences from a lifetime of listening and producing.

Contemplating the difference between the hundreds of albums he has helped other people make, and his own work, Sherwood notes:

I’ve made record after record as a producer for other artists, and I’m proud of every single one, but doing it as a solo artist I get the choice to call every shot and I’m not trying to please anyone else involved except myself. On this album it’s going to be a joy working it and trying to represent it live, and hopefully people will get off on it, because I think it’s a really good piece of work.

Explaining the title and genesis of the new work, Adrian continues:

“Recently I lost two great friends, Mark Stewart & Keith LeBlanc, and started working with the idea of doing another solo record, because it’s been a long time since Survival & Resistance. Mark had written a song, and part of a lyric was hidden in the song about “The Collapse Of Everything”. It seemed a very appropriate title, both summing up my feelings about losing Mark and Keith, and on another level, what’s going on in the world now both politically and environmentally.

When I started making tracks I was experimenting with tunings, and things kind of crashing together, trying to create a sonic that would flow and work together as a cohesive album. I wanted to take the tuned percussion ideas from the last album forward with more of the new things I’ve picked up in recent years, all the plugins and effects and things, while also keeping the vintage gear in the mix.

I was basically trying to make a soundtrack encompassing all the things I like including good musicianship, dub techniques, and also good rhythms. I wanted to evolve this into a live show because, when I put out my first solo album Never Trust A Hippy, that’s when my name went from the back of the sleeve to the front. It’s taken me a while to get used to the idea, but now I’m comfortable with being out front, even on the live stage, so I’ve tried to make something really sonically challenging, and take myself out of my comfort zone. It’s important to keep moving forward.”