[Cover photo credit to Alex Kroman]

Portland-based six-piece Abronia has been spending a decade refining their blend of psychedelia, noir, drone, avant-Jazz, Doom, and more. The band has announced their fourth studio album, Shapes Unravel, arriving February 20th, 2026. Their new song and video for “New Imposition” are also out now.

The new album approaches “grief, haunted memory, and flashes of transcendence” by bringing together “weight” and “stillness.”

When asked about the new song, singer/saxophone player Keelin Mayer says:

Going into a Fred Meyer (Pacific Northwest one stop shopping) during the pandemic–walking around the store while your drug addicted boyfriend shove racks of ribs, ice cream and deodorant down his pants, while people are shooting up in the bathroom. We think someone steals his iPhone at the self-checkout, but it turns up shoved between two bags of chips. You only realize your boyfriend was shoplifting when he pulls the stolen things out of his pants in the car. The guilt and shame you feel as you watch so many people succumb to addiction. That Fred Meyer location is now closed because it couldn’t sustain the wave of crime. Watching the fruits of unbridled capitalism and the greed of the ruling elite bloom into full technicolor. Try to run away before the wave gets you too.

Abronia Live

2/26 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios w/ Jackie-O Motherfucker 
2/27 – Seattle, WA @ Add-a-Ball w/ Jackie-O Motherfucker, Von Wildenhaus
2/28 – Bellingham, WA @ Makeshift w/ Jackie-O Motherfucker, The Sheen