{"id":1685238,"date":"2026-01-13T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1685238"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:45:07","slug":"jose-gonzalez-returns-with-new-album-and-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1685238","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez Returns With New Album and Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez Returns With New Album and Tour<\/h1>\n
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Listen to the title track of Against the Dying of the Light<\/em><\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Jazz Monroe<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Jos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez is preparing his first album in four years. Against the Dying of the Light<\/em>, the follow-up to Local Valley<\/em>, is out March 27 via Mute. Below, watch Fredrik Egerstrand\u2019s video for the title track and check out Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s tour dates behind the LP. The album tracklist, also below, includes the recent single \u201cPajarito.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Swedish singer-songwriter gives a typically big-picture assessment of the song in a press release:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAgainst the Dying of the Light\u201d is a song reflecting on humanity in 2025. It\u2019s about accepting who we are and what led us here, since the past can\u2019t be changed\u2026. Even though natural selection led us here, we don\u2019t have to do what is in the gene\u2019s best interest. And even though cultural evolution led to our societies, we don\u2019t have to keep all the narratives if they drag us down. And even though we have enormous opportunities with new technology that can eventually design and copy itself, we don\u2019t have to build it right away if it has the potential to make us obsolete. We can rebel against these replicators, rebel against the dying of the light.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The album, he adds, concerns \u201cwho we are\u2014tribes of sentient apes with stories that sometimes are incompatible with each other and tools that could eventually lead to dystopia or extinction.\u201d He goes on to lament the scourge of dogmatic ideology, spouted by \u201cdudes who pretend to know shit they don\u2019t.\u201d And while the record \u201ccan be listened to just for the sounds, harmonies, and rhythms,\u201d the lyrics, he insists, are \u201cmeant to inspire people to engage and take action by collaborating to solve collective problems. For humanism and enlightenment values and against the dying of the light.\u201d<\/p>\n

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04-21 Boston, MA – Royale
04-22 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
04-23 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
04-25 New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel
04-27 Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre
04-28 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
05-01 Seattle, WA – SODO
05-02 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
05-03 San Francisco, CA – Castro Theater
05-04 San Francisco, CA – Bimbos
05-05 Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether
05-08 Austin, TX – Mohawk Outside
05-09 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
05-11 Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom<\/p>\n

Against the Dying of the Light<\/em>:<\/p>\n

01 A Perfect Storm
02 Etyd
03 Against the Dying of the Light
04 For Every Dusk
05 Sheet
06 Pajarito
07 Losing Game (Sick)
08 Ay Querida
09 Rawls Sl\u00f6ja
10 Gymnasten
11 Just a Rock
12 You & We
13 Joy (Can\u2019t Help but Sing)<\/p>\n

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Jos\u00e9 Gonzalez: I Against the Dying Light<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Source URL: https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/jose-gonzalez-returns-with-new-album-and-tour\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Jos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez Returns With New Album and Tour Listen to the title track of Against the Dying of the Light By Jazz Monroe January 13, 2026 Jos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez, photo by Ellika Henriksson Jos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez is preparing his first album in four years. Against the Dying of the Light, the follow-up to Local Valley, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1685239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,54],"class_list":["post-1685238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1685239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}