Portland, Oregon-based Indie-Pop duo New Constellations, consisting of lifelong friends Harlee Case and Josh Smith, have announced their debut album, It Comes In Waves, arriving May 15, 2026 via Nettwerk. Written over the course of three years and recorded between Portland and Los Angeles, It Comes In Waves encompasses Dream-Pop and Dance-Pop, and expresses the theme that “life unfolds in cycles, grief and joy, heartbreak and renewal, certainty and doubt, all arriving in waves.”

Case explains:

The majority of the music is about relationships that I’ve been in, some of it really happy and some of it really heart-wrenching. In general, life comes in waves. Grief comes in waves. Happiness comes in waves. If you live long enough, you know you’re going to experience all these different types of things.

Smith adds:

‘It Comes In Waves’ is a phrase I’ve used in my life for a lot of different situations.There’s an ebb and a flow, and life is not what’s ahead of you. Life is what is happening to you at that moment.

Alongside the announcement, the duo shared the album’s newest single, “I Disappear,” which is a “meditation on anxiety, self-doubt, and losing yourself inside your own thoughts.”

Case says about it:

I was going through a really heavy time, and ‘I Disappear’ was written as a stream of consciousness. It’s based on the idea that when you start to spiral about shit and get super in your head about something, you disappear from yourself and the present moment. I believe so much in the law of attraction and manifestation, which also works oppositely. If I’m capable of controlling outcomes with my mind, then I’m fucked right now, because I’m stuck in this loop.

The band have been confirmed for this year’s BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley, CA on May 22nd and 23rd.