Texas band Trembler announce new EP, share "Wilt"
TREMBLER SIGN TO RITE FIELD RECORDS
NEW EP TOTAL SORRY ARRIVES JANUARY 29, 2026
FIRST PREVIEW “WILT” ARRIVES TODAY - LISTEN
FIVE SONGS CARVE OUT THE TEXAS BAND’S REFINED SOUND
“A hazy, dusky spin on slowcore.”
- THE ALTERNATIVE
Houston, TX four-piece Trembler is excited to join the Rite Field Records family with the announcement of their new EP, Total Sorry, available everywhere on January 29, 2026. The first preview of the band’s shift in sound, “Wilt,” arrives today with delicate precision; soft guitars and vocals reflecting on loss. The song wades through despair to find the other side of grief, a hope-filled reminder to push through.
“‘Wilt’ deals with what it sounds like–watching something beautiful in my life die,” bandleader Luke Gonzales explains. “Losing my closest friends, having my view of something that consumed so much of my life splinter and leave, and wondering whether it was hollow all along. Generally, a good representation of the central feeling I was trying to capture on this EP. It's sad, but in my opinion, sober in its acceptance that how things were are over now, in an attempt to move on.”
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Total Sorry finds the band reinventing their approach to making music, carving off layers of distortion and muddled guitars to reveal meticulously crafted songs. A short collection of songs about change and the fallout around it, each track moves between quiet, personal moments and loud, stretched out sections that unfold over time. Meant to be listened to as a whole, the upcoming EP finds the band at a moment of reimagination and lays the groundwork for what the band will tackle next.
Last year, Trembler shared the double single World Doesn’t Want Me, which captures slow chugging songs “Allergic” and “Stupid.” The group spent the majority of the year working on new music, which can be expected throughout 2026.
Having played packed shows with bands like Soft Blue Shimmer, Keep, Prize Horse, They Are Gutting A Body of Water, and more, Trembler will return to the stage soon. To stay in the loop on upcoming appearances, follow Trembler on Instagram at @TremblerBand.
TREMBLER
TOTAL SORRY
RITE FIELD RECORDS
Release Date: January 29, 2026
1. Like Sugar
2. Total Sorry
3. The Gonzales Shoulder
4. Wilt
5. Love Leave The Body
ABOUT TREMBLER:
Trembler has always operated in the blur between extremes, where fragility hardens into force and intimacy stretches toward something vast. Formed in Houston’s underground in 2019, the band first gathered attention for turning emotional transparency into long-form, unrepeated songs that felt closer to weather patterns than standard verse-chorus structures. Their 2022 full-length length Folding, produced by Corey Coffman (Gleemer), caught that tension in detail, pushing emo’s groundwork toward post-rock’s widescreen sweep for listeners still looking for guitar music that feels immediate rather than nostalgic.
Their upcoming EP, Total Sorry, marks a quiet but decisive pivot. Their first release on Rite Field Records, the concept-driven record is less a stopgap between albums and more a controlled reset. Recorded and mixed by Ceej Burton at Shinytone Recording Studio and mastered again by Coffman, these songs circle themes of transition, forgiveness, and the difficult parts of growth without turning them into easy resolutions. The reimagined lineup of Luke Gonzales, CJ Anderson, Ceej Burton, Martin Long, and Nathan Dietrich leans into those shifts, writing pieces that move with narrative weight, building from near stillness into bursts that feel closer to film cues than rock climaxes.
The EP lands like both a closing statement and a first chapter, a way of filing off the last traces of their early work while outlining what comes next. If Folding was Trembler reaching outward and testing the limits of their sound, this record feels like them drawing a clearer outline, choosing their details with more precision and less apology. Another full-length with Coffman is already in view, but this release argues that the band has arrived at a voice that warrants attention in the present tense, not just as a promise of what might follow.
On stage, that sensibility turns into something physical. The songs rise and drop like emotional arcs rather than set lists, with stretches of restraint that make the heaviest moments feel earned instead of engineered. As new music approaches, Trembler is not just maturing alongside modern guitar music; they are quietly insisting on a place within it, treating each release less like a genre exercise and more like another chance to redraw the borders.
ABOUT RITE FIELD RECORDS:
Rite Field Records is a musician-led independent record label, music consultancy and merchandise distributor based in Houston, Texas.
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