The Confuser

Robyn Hitchcock has announced a new album, "The Confuser", which will be out July 24th, 2026, on Tiny Ghost Records. Depending on how and what you count, this is around his 23rd longplayer and features Jeremy Fetzer on guitar, Todd Bolden on bass, and Eric Slick on drums, plus Robyn’s old Soft Boys bandmate Kimberly Rew.

“Can you recall first realising that you were basically just a tenant in your body, that it’s not yours in perpetuity? Can I, for that matter?”, Robyn muses in a leadup to talking about “I Am This Thing”, the album’s 1st single. “It came to me in the summer of 2022, a golden age all of its own. I was standing waist deep in the chilly English sea on Compton Bay, my favourite Isle of Wight beach, and found myself singing it, splashing about in the waves like a 5 year-old. I was that age when I first visited the Island, so perhaps being back in those waters for the first time since the pandemic triggered that song”.

As usual, Robyn has given us a very catchy song in his own inimitable style.