Blondie Announce First Album in Nine Years, High Noon

Blondie will release High Noon, their first album in nearly a decade, on February 26, 2027, via BMG. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein built the record with an unusually crowded guest list: Johnny Marr, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, and Zach Condon of Beirut, among others.

The album is also a farewell of sorts. It's the last Blondie record to feature co-founding drummer Clem Burke, who died at 70 last year. That fact sits quietly at the end of the announcement, and it changes how you hear the whole thing. Burke's final recorded work arrives as a party, not a funeral.

The first single, "Spectral Eyes," is out now. Marr wrote it and plays on it, which makes it as close to a Smiths-adjacent Blondie track as we're likely to get.

What did Harry and Stein say?

Harry framed the record in confident terms. "This album is classic Blondie—an amalgamation of all our different influences and eras into something new," she said in a press release. "This music feels grounded in the present, shaped by who we are and how we're living now."

Stein, characteristically, took a different route. "It's been a long, strange ride, and somehow here we are with another Blondie album," he said. "I'm not sure what the fuck I'm supposed to say at this point, except that we're incredibly grateful for all your support over the years." After five decades in the band, brevity and profanity remain his most reliable instruments.

Who produced it, and what's on it?

High Noon follows 2017's Pollinator and interim releases including Vivir en la Habana, the accompaniment to a live film of the same name. John Congleton, who produced Pollinator, returns to the desk (production here means shaping the recorded sound of the album). David Wrench provides additional production and mixing. Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius also appear.

The tracklist runs to 13 songs:

• Spectral Eyes
• Heartbreak Kid
• Come Back Home
• Tambo Tambo
• Man Who Had No Face
• The End
• Little Metal Drummer
• Sleepwalking
• Whistle Into the Wind
• Antifreeze
• East of Eden
• Bad Underwear
• Ah, Sunflower, Weary of Time

The sequencing spans the wry ("Bad Underwear") to the literary — "Ah, Sunflower, Weary of Time" borrows its title from William Blake, and "Antifreeze" sounds like a dare. Any tracklist containing both Blake and antifreeze deserves attention on principle.

Why does this one matter?

A band founded in 1974, announcing new music with guests spanning the Smiths, the Sex Pistols and Beirut, is not coasting. The gamble is whether "classic Blondie," in Harry's phrase, can still mean something new. With Marr's single already out, listeners can judge the first evidence now — and February 26, 2027, will settle the rest, including how the band carries Burke's absence into whatever comes after.