[Cover photo credit to Coco Real]
The artist Twin Shadow has announced his seventh studio album, Cadet, which arrives on November 20, 2025, via Dom Recs. With this announcement, he shared the new single, “Half Asleep,” along with an official lyric video.
The arrival of Cadet comes shortly after Twin Shadow’s sixth album, Georgie, which was released in March of this year. Dedicated to his late father, Georgie “explores themes of grief, memory, and introspection.” Cadet, however, sees Twin Shadow back with his drum machine and synthesizers.
Of the album, he shares:
“Cadet isn’t a remix record. I wanted to move past that word. Too often, “remix” just means a quick club version or a money grab. At best, it can mean those incredible edits we get every once in a while, which modernize something classic. What I wanted was to start fresh—flip the mood of Georgie and make it more energetic, more carefree. I worked on it non-stop for about a month, grinding because I was so excited by the idea.
I pulled in people close to me—Blackpaw, Nest Acoustics, my longtime friend Ray Brady, and Little Coyote, who came down the street one day to sing on a track. Hopefully, Cadet feels more than Georgie reimagined. Not an erasure but a modification — the treating my former self as collaborator, my present self as a guide or some sort of architect, builder, or wrecking ball — Hopefully the result is a body of work that argues for ownership as a creative tool, not just a business term.”
The song “Half Asleep” dives into “the feeling of finding comfort in romanticized memories of a relationship” whereas the lyric video conjures “a world where an ideal version of a relationship still exists.”
Twin Shadow says:
“”Half Asleep” is about the one that got away—we all have one, or two, or more. It’s one of those songs where memory takes the wheel, and maybe those memories are more vivid and romantic than the reality ever was. Who’s to say? The moments are gone, but the desire to reach out remains—to see who they’ve become.
Even in our digital era, where no one is ever truly out of sight/out of mind, we still crave that connection. It’s a way of understanding who we are now by revisiting who we were then. The song is heavily inspired by one of my favorite bands, The Blue Nile, who have always captured that feeling so perfectly.”
To celebrate the release of Cadet, and to commemorate 15 years of his debut album Forget, Twin Shadow will be performing in Los Angeles at the Regent Theater on December 3.
