The race to have the best album title of 2025 is already over, thanks to Ringlets.
The Auckland-based post-punk band have announced their second album, The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies), which arrives on June 27th.
According to a press release, the highly anticipated follow-up to their 2023 self-titled debut album “conjures mystic visions; takes raucous, unkempt yet solely committed turns, twists, and tiptoes delicately between the absurd and the divine.” Now that’s how you sell a record.
The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies) was produced by the band – Arabella Poulsen (bassist, vocals), Arlo Grey (drums), László Reynolds (guitar, vocals), and Leith Towers (lead vocals) – in Auckland at The Lab alongside Michael Logie (The Mint Chicks). Isaac Keating handled mixing duties at Abbey Road Studios.
To celebrate their album announcement, Ringlets have shared lead single “Heavenly Wheel”, which reveals its considerable charms at a much slower pace than their only release of 2024, the zooming and playful “New Life”.
“The song is about in-escapism—being trapped in the bed you’ve made for yourself,” Towers explains, adding that the accompanying music video “captures this concept through vignettes of endless and pointless tasks, ultimately suggesting that it’s not so bad when you’re in said bed together.”
Watch the clip, directed and produced by Joe Curtis, above.
Following the release of their promising debut in 2023, Ringlets featured in Rolling Stone AU/NZ‘s Up-And-Coming Aotearoa Artists series, where Reynolds described the band’s sound as being “made up of eight equal parts: fun, friendly, sad, scary, dumb, sexy, mad, and hairy.”
When asked about what the band hoped to achieve in the future, Reynolds responded, “Make another (better) album.” Based on the strength of “Heavenly Wheel”, it could be a case of mission accomplished.
Ringlets’ “Heavenly Wheel” is out now. The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies) is out June 27th via Flying Nun Records and Leather Jacket Records (pre-save/pre-order here).
