Rosetta Stone return on September 25 with Executing Nostalgia, their first album since 2025’s acclaimed Dose Makes The Poison. Released on CD, cassette and colored splatter vinyl, the album finds Porl King continuing to push Rosetta Stone’s familiar gothic darkness into increasingly electronic and rhythmic territory. There’s plenty of history in the titles too, with nods to Southern Death Cult, the Virgin Prunes and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry suggesting that nostalgia here is less about looking backwards than dragging the past somewhere darker and stranger.
Ahead of the album, “Shadowban” offers the first proper glimpse of what’s coming, and it’s a compelling one. Driven by a near-Motorik pulse, the track settles into a hypnotic repetition that makes its three minutes and forty seconds feel considerably longer. King’s vocals become almost a mantric chant as the rhythm keeps grinding forward, creating the kind of track that seems to exist in a loop just outside of time. It’s stark, insistent and very difficult to shake.
With ten tracks spanning new material and reworkings of songs and ideas rooted in the post-punk underground, Executing Nostalgia looks set to continue the particularly fertile second life Rosetta Stone have enjoyed since their return. If “Shadowban” is anything to go by, this is less a trip down memory lane than an attempt to make the past vibrate in the present — cold, repetitive, melodic and just the right side of unsettling.
Preorder now available for Rosetta Stone – Executing Nostalgia. Releases Sept. 25, 2026.