[Cover photo credit to Zachary Vague]

Vancouver-based alternative Psych-Rock band Meltt has released their new album Pathways. With this album, the quartet embraces “transformation, uncertainty, and growth.” A live video for “Monomyth” is also out now.

True to its title, Pathways finds the band “at multiple forks in the road and deciding to take all of them,” exploring new textures in their sound. The band will also be heading out on an extensive North American tour starting in August.

Guitarist James Porter says of the experience of making the album:

There are so many things we experience individually, but when we get in the studio, it becomes clear that we’re on a journey together.

Engineer Chris Coady, known across the industry for his work on records from Beach House to TV on the Radio, put the finishing touches on Pathways as mixer. Coady employed a method of conducting remote listening sessions from his Burbank studio.

Chris Smith (lead vocals, guitar, bass, keys) says:

He’d transmit the music to us live with our microphones muted, so that we could be in our room and discuss what we’re thinking about what he’s doing in the moment. We’d type it in the chat, and he’d immediately reflect that note—and we could hear exactly what the change was and sign off on it.

MELTT TOUR DATES 2026:

AUG 14 – Calgary, AB – Commonwealth Bar & Stage

AUG 15 – Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room

AUG 17 – Winnipeg, MB – Sidestage

AUG 18 – Fargo, ND – The Aquarium

AUG 19 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club

AUG 20 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall

AUG 21 – Ferndale, MI – The Loving Touch

AUG 22 – Toronto, ON – The Mod Club

AUG 24 – Ottawa, ON –  The 27 Club

AUG 25 – Montreal, QC –  La Sala Rossa

AUG 27 – Cambridge, MA –  The Sinclair

AUG 28 – New York, NY –  Bowery Ballroom

AUG 29 – Philadelphia, PA –  The Foundry at the Fillmore Philadelphia

AUG 30 – Washington, D.C. –  The Atlantis

SEPT 1 – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall

SEPT 2 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle

SEPT 3 – Nashville, TN – The Blue Room

SEPT 4 – Atlanta, GA – Purgatory at the Masquerade

SEPT 5 – Orlando, FL – The Social

SEPT 7 – Houston, TX – Meow Wolf Houston’s Radio Tave

SEPT 8 – Austin, TX – Antone’s

SEPT 9 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves

SEPT 10 – Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico – House of Vans

SEPT 12 – Denver, CO – The Bluebird Theater

SEPT 13 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf

SEPT 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom

SEPT 16 – San Diego, CA – Quartyard

SEPT 17 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room

SEPT 18 – Ojai, CA – Ojai Deer Lodge

SEPT 19 – Felton, CA – Felton Music Hall

SEPT 20 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall

SEPT 22 – Portland, OR – Polaris Hall

SEPT 23 – Seattle, WA – Neumos

OCT 2 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom

NOV 21 – Victoria, BC – Capital Ballroom