A love so vast it outstretches galaxies. A devotion so unwavering it weighs heavier than planets, yet fragile enough to make us feel small, mortal, and accountable to its power. That’s the scale TENDER are playing with on their new track “Gravity/Infinity” — the first taste of their upcoming 2026 record.

Since their formation in 2015, James Cullen and Dan Cobb have become architects of intimacy blown up to cinematic size — weaving bedroom-pop confessionals with widescreen festival ambition. It’s this duality that’s earned them a cult following, critical nods from NPR and Stereogum, and streams rolling in by the hundreds of millions.

From the bruised longing of Modern Addiction (2017) to the nocturnal unease of Fear of Falling Asleep (2019), TENDER’s sound has evolved with patient precision. On 2023’s Flux, their songwriting turned deeply personal: meditations on fatherhood, mirrored between the two as they both became first-time dads, shadowed by Cullen’s fight through travel bans just to witness his child’s birth in New York.

Now, with their lives recalibrated along the south coast — Cullen rooted in Portsmouth, Cobb in Brighton — TENDER are tracing a line back to their origins. The forthcoming album, still untitled, is already shaping up to be their most luminous and conflicted work: a dialogue between shadow and radiance, falter and flight.

“There’s a back and forth between some of these songs, and they feel at opposite ends of the spectrum. We have moments where we stumble and slip a little to the dark. Then we have confident strides and lean a little to the light. But we live in this perfect moment between both. I like to think one doesn’t exist without the other.”

To capture this balance, the duo wrote instinctively — ideas ping-ponging between laptops, intuition over calculation. The result? The most opulent, fully-formed TENDER we’ve heard yet: music suspended between the pull of gravity and the infinity of space, brimming with heart, honesty, and a quiet grandeur.