Late last year Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter released their fifth full length album, “Forever, I’ve Been Being Born”, via Southern Lord (USA) and Ideologic Organ (Europe). Awarding it an easily merited 9/10, AUK’s Andy Davidson wrote:”the tracks within centre around Jesse Sykes’ transcendent voice, tracks filled with themes of magical thinking, emotional dislocation, death and transformation”. They are now returning to the UK and Europe for the first time in age to bring the record to fans this side of the Atlantic
“Forever, I’ve Been Being Born” is described as “a suite of masterful, emotive songs from an open heart, dwelling in a brightness yet deep in the ethereal and melancholic, steeped in themes of magical thinking, emotional dislocation, death and transformation”. In the making for ten years, the album centres around the power of Sykes’ voice, in turn evocative, and hauntingly intimate, framed by guitarist Phil Wandscher’s classic and fractured tones.
Sykes said of the record, “This album is our attempt to create elegant folk and sometimes ragged, cosmic, heart-rendered songs full of eulogies and laments. Our sound is still familiar enough, but unrecognisable at times—we’ve gotten older and wearier, the music more fragile”…”I wanted to connote tenderness and a state of grace in the wake of resolution—paying homage to the creeping knowledge of an emerging, menacing undertone forming in our collective psyche. In hindsight, the delay in releasing this record has been a bit of a blessing, as the lyrics seem more poignant now, transcending our own internal voices and psyches. As the world shares its collective crisis, so we too, share our songs.”
You can see the video for ‘Dead Pools’ below as a taste of what to expect. The tour dates are listed below and you should be able to access tickets via this link.
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter 2026 Tour dates:
16/04/26: Botanique – Brussels (BE)
17/04/26: Roadburn Festival – Tilburg (NL)
19/04/26: Chapel @ Angel Microbrewery – Nottingham (UK)
20/04/26: Hyde Park Book Club – Leeds (UK)
21/04/26: The Cumberland Arms – Newcastle (UK)
22/04/26: The Hug & Pint – Glasgow (UK)
24/04/26: Bellobar – Dublin (IE)
26/04/26: The Hope & Ruin – Brighton (UK)
27/04/26: The Lexington – London (UK)
