Club Night’s epic comeback with latest single ‘Rabbit’

Get ready to dust off your dancing shoes and crank the volume—Oakland’s own Club Night are back after a six-year hush with their sophomore record, ‘Joy Coming Down,’ landing tomorrow (May 2, 2025) via Tiny Engines. If you’ve been counting the days since What Life (2019), consider the wait officially over.

They’ve already dropped two teasers for what’s next:

• “Palace” kicked things off in February with a burst of noise-pop meets math-rock energy.
• “Judah” followed in March—Flood Magazine called it a melodic triumph with Explosions in the Sky vibes under the surface.
• And right now, “Rabbit” is live everywhere, a soaring, bittersweet send-off that channels frenzied indie-punk euphoria.

No wonder BrooklynVegan has Joy Coming Down on their “50 Most Anticipated Albums for Spring 2025” list. Club Night’s blend of emo heartache, art-rock textures, and straight-up punk charge sits comfortably alongside At The Drive-In, Los Campesinos!, and mewithoutYou—but with its own unmistakable twist.

What makes this album tick?
‘Joy Coming Down’ is an ode to loss and what blooms afterward. Borrowing its title from Fred Thomas’s poignant lines—“Tears rolling out of the eyes wet as a cloud / but it’s only the sound of your joy coming down”—the record is about transformation: grief becoming gratitude, memory becoming melody.

• “Expo” throws you headfirst into that philosophy. It starts dreamy and muted, then explodes into a triumphant indie-anthem riff. Imagine a campfire dance-off with sorrow itself—guitar panic meets hopeful horns meets a chant of “Begin again, begin again.”
• By mid-album, tracks like “Dream” and “Dream II” let you sink into the sludge of loss—eerie, enveloping, but strangely comforting, like revisiting a bittersweet memory.
• “Rot” slows the pace to a meditative crawl, lyrics that feel like flipping through a battered photo album, searching for moments you never want to forget.
• Then “Station” and “Judah” peek over the horizon, glimmers of healing: thunderbolt flashes that promise you’ll see your ghosts again in some new light.
• Finally, “Rabbit” closes the journey—an elegy to mentor Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit that crescendos and subsides in the same breath. It’s an invitation to remember that “we are a part of it,” turning personal grief into a shared spark of change.

‘Joy Coming Down’ track listing

1. Expo
2. Lake
3. Palace
4. Dream
5. Rot
6. Judah
7. Station
8. Dream II
9. Rabbit

Whether you’re here for the cathartic roar, the artful twists, or the honest reflections, ‘Joy Coming Down’ promises a ride that’s messy, triumphant, and utterly alive. Pre-save now, and join Club Night on May 2 for the first dance of the next chapter.