The song is the title track of the band's upcoming fourth album, which "reflects a fiercely self-directed creative vision"
By Tom Skinner 10th February 2026
MUNA. CREDIT: Dean Bradshaw
MUNA have returned with new single ‘Dancing On The Wall’, and announced some intimate live shows in the US and UK. Listen and find all the details below.
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The song serves as the title track of the LA trio’s fourth studio album, which will be released on May 8 via Saddest Factory Records/Secretly Group. Pre-order/pre-save here.
Advertisement“‘Dancing On The Wall’ is possibly our favourite song we’ve made as a band,” MUNA explained. “We think it’s all the best parts of MUNA – it’s coming from a really emotional and lonely place, but the song itself makes us feel powerful and euphoric.”
They continued: “It’s written in the moment that the clock strikes midnight at the ball, and you have to give up the fantasy. In this case, it’s the fantasy of loving someone or something that can’t love you back.”
“I’m dancing on the wall when I’m with you,” MUNA sing in the chorus of the upbeat, ’80s-influenced pop track. They express their frustration over an absent object of their desires, and the uncertainties surrounding the situation.
“I should’ve told you not to waste my time/ But you’re so magnetic, it’s like what’s the use,” one verse goes. “I would wait forever, as long as I’m waiting for you/ I can feel you so close/ No more than a stone’s throw/ Looking for a window/ But you’re the one that I keep banging my head against.”
RecommendedAccording to the band’s label, the upcoming follow-up to MUNA’s 2022 self-titled third album “captures a heightened emotional intensity, balancing propulsion and introspection, euphoria and unease, a world that feels urgent, physical, and alive”.
Produced by the band’s own Naomi McPherson, the LP “reflects a fiercely self-directed creative vision, rooted in instinct, trust, and total artistic control”. The description adds: “It’s a record that sits comfortably in tension, inviting listeners onto the dancefloor while keeping its inner world deliberately unresolved.”
To celebrate their return, MUNA will play a series of intimate underplay shows in LA, New York and London this May.
MUNA’s 2026 live dates are:
MAY 08 – The Shrine, LA 16 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NYC 17 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NYC 18 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NYC 26 – Heaven, London 27 – Heaven, London 28 – Heaven, London
Advertisement2022’s ‘MUNA’ marked the group’s first album as an independent act, after signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records the previous year.
During a Cover interview with NME, the band spoke about being dropped by major label RCA for “not making enough money”. They said it was “easier in certain ways” to work with an independent label, and that they now had a “lot of creative freedom”.
McPherson added: “It’s hard to compare [the two labels] because we’ve had such anomalous experiences at both labels, to be honest. At our old label, no one was creatively stifling us or telling us what kind of music we should make. And our departure from that label wasn’t really even contentious.
“You’re more likely to find people who you align with in terms of taste. You’re maybe less likely to find those people in a more, like, large corporate structure. That’s not to say those [major label] people don’t care about art, but they just might not have the same taste.”
MUNA’s Katie Gavin released her debut solo album, ‘What A Relief’, in 2024 via Saddest Factory Records. McPherson made their acting debut in the biographical comedy film about SNL that year, titled Saturday Night.
The trio have previously opened for Taylor Swift on her record-breaking ‘Eras Tour’, and performed with Lorde, Boygenius and Phoebe Bridgers.
