Philadelphia shoegaze greats NOTHING announce their new album, A Short History of Decay. Out February 27 via Run For Cover Records, the band’s fifth studio album stands as their most sonically expansive and emotionally direct work to date: a widescreen reckoning with time, truth, and the body’s slow unraveling.
Recharged by a newly solidified lineup featuring guitarist Doyle Martin (Cloakroom), bassist Bobb Bruno (Best Coast), drummer Zachary Jones (MSC, Manslaughter 777), and guitarist Cam Smith (Ladder To God, Cloakroom), A Short History of Decay captures frontman Domenic “Nicky” Palermo at his most unflinching, confronting aging, illness, and the weight of memory with startling clarity.
Alongside today’s announcement, NOTHING have shared the album’s first single and Ben Ditto-directed music video, “Cannibal World,” featuring visuals by Berlin-based artist Icysaw. The song is a pulverizing statement of intent that fuses the band’s signature industrial-gaze intensity with the stark vulnerability that characterizes their best work. Its emotional weight is accentuated by Icysaw’s discomforting images that meditate on voyeurism, the estrangement of AI, and posthuman disembodiement.
NOTHING will perform at their own festival, Slide Away, across multiple dates in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Joined by bands such as Hum, Chapterhouse, Swirlies, and more NOTHING will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their seminal album Tired of Tomorrow with special guest lineups in each market. Tickets are available here.
Nothing Tour Dates
2/8 – Tokyo, Japan @ UNIT w/ envy
2/9 – Tokyo, Japan @ FEVER
5/15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
5/16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
5/22 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
5/23 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
5/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
5/30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
NOTHING
A Short History of Decay
Run For Cover Records
February 27, 2026
1. never come never morning
2. cannibal world
3. a short history of decay
4. the rain don’t care
5. purple strings
6. toothless coal
7. ballet of the traitor
8. nerve scales
9. essential tremors
For more info and upcoming tour dates for Nothing visit their artist page here.