The Detroit indie folk band return with their first new music in three years, exploring financial uncertainty, growing older and the realities of life as working musicians.
Detroit quartet Bonny Doon have announced their fourth studio album, Forever Green, set for release on 5 February 2027 via ANTI-. The record marks their first new music in three years, following 2023's Let There Be Music, and arrives alongside lead single ‘Lucky Ones’, a song examining the frustrations of working hard without necessarily finding financial stability.
Built around the band's familiar folk-rock sound, ‘Lucky Ones’ addresses the growing divide between rich and poor, with vocalist Bill Lennox reflecting on his own experiences of balancing life in a touring band with working late nights behind a bar. Speaking about the track, Lennox explains: ‘Most people scrape by and can barely afford to live despite working their ass off. Meanwhile the rich get richer and those in power are doing everything they can to suppress the rights and dignity of working-class people.’
He continues: ‘It’s kind of a culmination of grievance and frustration both personal and collective. In my case, 12 years into a band, 12 years older, still bartending until 3am, the body doesn’t recover like it used to. You can sometimes feel like your dues have been paid, and you’re waiting on something to get easier or fall into place. I know a lot of people that feel like that.’
The forthcoming album finds Bonny Doon reflecting on the changes that have accompanied more than a decade of making music together, including the financial pressures of sustaining a career, the loss of loved ones and the responsibilities of starting families. Despite these subjects, Forever Green also centres on the friendships that have kept the band together, with the four members continuing to meet regularly to write and rehearse.
Since releasing their debut album in 2017, Bonny Doon have established themselves within the American indie folk scene, releasing Longwave in 2018 before becoming closely involved with Waxahatchee's Saint Cloud era. The band performed as both studio musicians and touring members alongside Katie Crutchfield, contributing to the Americana sound of her 2020 album. Their own third record, Let There Be Music, followed in 2023.
Forever Green will feature ten tracks, including ‘Lucky Ones’, ‘Cry With Me’ and the title track. The album is available to pre-save ahead of its release on 5 February 2027.
Photography By: Anna Friss