Brand New Completes Surprise Comeback With Release of First Album Since 2009
Brand New's comeback is complete.
Just two days after announcing that the band's fifth studio album would drop in October, Brand New decided to surprise fans on Aug. 17 by making it available to download immediately for $9.
Fans who had pre-ordered the album, titled Science Fiction, on Aug. 15 mysteriously received physical CDs two days later. Amid the immediate confusion, Brand New released the album cover, 12-song track list and download link via social media. See the cover art and song names below.
Science Fiction is the band's first new album since 2009's Daisy, which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200. Since then, Brand New released non-album singles "Mene" in 2015 and "I Am a Nightmare" in 2016.
22m
44m
1m
20m
21m
1m
2m
22m
2m
21m
46s
1m
30s
1m
1m
24m
30s
54s
21m
1m
3m
3m
45m
20m
56s
30s
1m
1m
1m
44s
1m
32s
4m
43s
20m
1m
41s
3m
2m
1h 39m
44m
14m
2m
22m
37s
1m
56s
1m
1m
1m
23m
20m
2m
1m
1m
1m
1m
1m
21s
36s
1m
22m
44m
20m
1h 34m
2m
48s
52s
43s
6m
1h 27m
8m
6m
41m
45s
20m
19m
22m
21m
21m
1h 3m
44m
45m
23m
59m
20m
20m
2m
52s
2m
3m
3m
59m
1m