# Watchhouses’s New Album Rituals Is Out Now

**New Music** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 3 June 2025  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/new-music-releases/watchhousess-new-album-rituals-is-out-now/

---

Watchhouse’s new album Rituals, co-produced with Ryan Gustafson (The Dead Tongues), explores the boundaries between identity and awareness, and how we often confuse familiar patterns with truths. The 11-song collection muses on the endless nature of evolution, asking questions like: how can we have a positive relationship with change? How can we meet our ends gracefully? Is the world on fire or at home in the sun?

The 11-song collection is the pair’s first release of all new, original songs since their 2021 self-titled album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart and earned praise from Rolling Stone (“pristine acoustic picking collides with hazy, dream-like psychedelia”) Mojo, NPR Music, American Songwriter and more.

![](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/24488/uploaded_image-1-1.jpeg)

Starting over a decade ago playing coffee shops and local restaurants around North Carolina, Watchhouse have grown into a bonafide folk music sensation and one of 21st century indie music’s biggest grassroots success stories. With sold-out shows at legendary venues like Red Rocks and the Ryman Auditorium, and hundreds of millions of streams, they’ve earned a reputation for creating music that “redefines roots music for a younger generation” (Washington Post). The duo – now a family of their own – are two singers and musicians with profound chemistry, performing earnest yet masterfully crafted songs that encompass the unknowable mysteries, existential heartbreak, and communal joys of modern life.

*Rituals *is out now via Thirty Tigers / Civilians. Listen [HERE](https://watchhouse.lnk.to/rituals). 

For more info on Watchhouse, head to [https://watchhouseband.com](https://watchhouseband.com/)

![](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/24490/481267702_1190557742441693_4054198428036843083_n.jpg)