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Jupe Jupe release new single "A Game Of Wait and See"

Jupe Jupe release new single "A Game Of Wait and See"
New Album King Of Sorrows February 27, 2026 on No-Count Records

Stream: "A Game Of Wait and See" on YouTube or All Digital Platforms

Stream: “Haunting" on YouTube and All Digital Platforms

On February 27, Seattle-based darkwave band Jupe Jupe will release their new album King Of Sorrows on No-Count Records (pre-order). Today the band is excited to share the new single and video "A Game Of Wait and See." The song debuted today at Rock And Roll Globe and is on all digital platforms for playlist shares.

On the single, the band says:

'A Game of Wait and See' is an efficient, urgent, danceable darkwave song, perfect for all who wrestle with ambiguity. Whether it’s a year from now or an hour from now, the uncertainty of outcomes can be unsettling the deeper we invest in the need and desire for something.

'A Game of Wait and See' jumps out at the top with a synth call and a guitar response, 155 bpm high-hat & kick pattern familiar to anyone who has stayed at a club much later than expected, and two basses: one pulsing synth and one deep accenting string. The vocals take us through the storm and stress of me-culture. Who among us hasn’t opened a hole inside themselves? We’ve invited in a type of pain that comes from attention seeking/confirming software. Maybe we didn’t realize just how poisonous this syrupy social bunkum is. Maybe we can’t yet see the extent of rot on the cords that tether us

But when the speed of social stimuli overwhelms the time lag of validation the pain can be insidious. Slowly making the monsters out in the world less scary than the monsters in the mirror. What if they aren’t watching me? With outcomes unknown we can only wait and see.

The track follows the release of the band's singles "Haunting" and "Kill Your Darlings," which are now streaming on all digital platforms.

Across a deep and wide catalog, including Invaders, Reduction in Drag, Crooked Kisses, Lonely Creatures, Nightfall, and Midnight Waits for No One, Jupe Jupe has mixed synthpop, post-punk, new wave, ’70s glam, and ghostly Americana into a signature neo-noir cocktail. No matter how their sonic palette shifts, the band’s spark of angst remains, speaking to a collective sense that something about the path we’re on isn’t quite right. Leaning into that feeling led them toward King of Sorrows.
Their new full-length is an urgent eight-song set, darker, more angular, more concise, and more direct. King of Sorrows lives in a sonic universe shaped by The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Depeche Mode, melding vintage analog synths, low-bit samplers, and grainy Mellotrons with fresh tribal drums, driving bass, cutting guitars, and mournful saxophone. Anchoring it all is a rich baritone vocal delivering emotive, shadow-facing lyrics, grappling with power, prideful ignorance, wounded egos, and the darker corners of the self.
Heavy in the low end and clanging through the midrange, King of Sorrows is built for movement: eight dance-ready tracks driving headlong through long nights of loneliness, egoism, me-culture, and the ghosts of relationships that refuse to fade. It could be the soundtrack to a dance floor deep in the Kali Yuga, songs for both the snake and the dove, and for knowing this is the far-off land.
Jupe Jupe features My Young (vocals, synths), Bryan Manzo (guitar, bass, saxophone), Patrick Partington (guitar), and Jarrod Arbini (drums, percussion). The band is joined once again by collaborators Evan Foster and Matt Bayles. Foster (The Boss Martians, Dirty Sidewalks, The Sonics) engineered the record at No-Count Studios in Seattle, and Bayles (Minus the Bear; producer for Botch, Mastodon, Nox Novacula, Murder City Devils, and Isis) mixed it at Red Room in Seattle.