# Things Of Stone And Wood Drop New Music

**New Music** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 9 February 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/new-music-releases/things-of-stone-and-wood-drop-new-music/

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**THINGS OF STONE AND WOOD return with new Double A-sided single ahead of first new album in 23 years and national tour**

**Things of Stone and Wood** are back, and they are in fine acoustic form, indeed.

![Collage-style album artwork with vintage photographs, text overlays, and a blue decorative windmill cutout on tan cardboard.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/37564/a635d1ac-d25d-c6b0-b0bc-addae72b1969.jpg)

The double a-side single “**You’d Gone before You Went/The Windmills Turn”**, from their first album since 2003, ***Rae Street*** will be released via **MGM** on **February 20** and is available to pre-save now –  
**[Things of Stone and Wood – You’d Gone Before You Went / The Windmills Turn](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=414ec6bcfa&e=3758bcc5db)**

While the new album ***Rae Street*** has yet to be formally announced, we can tell you it will be released in March and the band will undertake a national tour around its release. And that tour is announced today:

**THINGS OF STONE AND WOOD – THE ORIGINAL DUO**  
***– RAE ST***** ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR –**

**Wed Mar 11 Ellington Jazz Club, Perth WA**  
**Thu Mar 12 The River, Margaret River WA**  
**Fri Mar 12 Clancy’s Fremantle WA**  
**Thu 19 & Fri Mar 20 Junk Bar, Brisbane Qld (2 Shows)**  
**Sat Mar 21 The Presynct, Nambour Qld**  
**Fri Mar 27 Django Bar, Sydney NSW**  
**Sat Mar 28 Smith’s Alternative, Canberra ACT**  
**Dri 24 & Sat 25 April Merri Creek Tavern, Melbourne Vic**  
**Fri May 1 Old Church of the Hill, Bendigo VIC**

**Tickets: ****[thingsofstoneandwood.com](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=8315b5cf81&e=3758bcc5db)**

![Guitarist performing with acoustic guitar under warm stage lighting during Things of Stone and Wood tour.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/37565/2f855917-ac76-6087-3ce4-9a9387d1be34.jpg)

The two songs on the new single are exemplars of the melodic and harmonically pleasing style that has helped establish them as a near 40-year Australian folk-rock institution, but here, they embrace a new millennium bedroom-folk aesthetic (recorded, as they were, in a converted bedroom).

While musically and lyrically spartan, **“You’d Gone Before You Went”** is a deeply moving account of **Greg Arnold**’s experience of losing his mother to **Alzheimer’s**. A direct vocal, lush backing vocals and minimalist instrumentation are subtly combined to deliver one of the finest hours in the catalogue of this **APRA and ARIA** awarded songwriter. 

**“The Windmills Turn”** is a rollicking and classically joyous **Things of Stone and Wood **Celtic-Hippie clap-along-sing-along. Accordions, melodicas, hand drums, shakers and lush backing vocals (again – as always) bring the party, which all serve to underpin the more reflective mood of the lyric, which is a study of the quixotic life of a musician.   
  
Why would anyone try to make the ocean waterproof?  
Exactly.   
  
The double a-side single is an innovative and charming reminder of why **Things of Stone and Wood **have long been considered ***“Melbourne’s most inspired and inspiring folk-rock band” *****(Michael Dwyer)** and as **“The Windmills Turn”** says …  
  
You can’t stay mad at them. 

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