Irish band NewDad share latest preview of second album 'Altar' with new single 'Pretty' • News • DIY Magazine

NewDad have offered up another taste of what to expect from their forthcoming second album, after announcing that the LP - entitled ‘Altar’ - will be hitting shelves on 19th September via Atlantic Records.

New single ‘Pretty’ is the fourth track to be lifted from the record (following ‘Roobosh’, ‘Puzzle’, and ‘Entertainer’, the latter two of which also appeared on the band’s May EP ‘Safe’), and is a touching, dreamy offering that explores the band’s deep-rooted love for their hometown of Galway.

“’Pretty’ is a lighter spin on a key theme of the album, homesickness,” frontwoman Julie Dawson has explained. “It was a way for me to express my adoration for Galway, it’s a love song really.”

Continuing, she shares: “coming to a place like London that’s so chaotic and overwhelming really made me appreciate the peace and quiet of home. Also the landscape, being able to see wide open fields and roads with no one on them; it’s just so calming and I’m in love with it. That’s why I wrote this song.”

Watch the video for ‘Pretty’ - set and filmed in Galway - below.

NewDad are currently across the pond playing a string of US shows, but they’ll be back nearer home turf for a headline tour of Ireland, the UK, and mainland Europe this Autumn. Catch them live this year on the following dates:

AUGUST 2025
02 Chicago, IL, Lollapalooza / Reggie’s Rock Club (w/ Wunderhorse)
06 Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg
08 San Francisco, CA, Outside Lands
09 Sacramento, CA, Channel 24 (w/ Mannequin Pussy)
12 Portland, OR, Polaris Hall
13 Vancouver, BC, Biltmore Cabaret
14 Seattle, WA, Madame Lou’s

OCTOBER 2025
02 Oslo, John Dee
03 Stockholm, Nalen Klubb
05 Copenhagen, Vega Small Room
06 Hamburg, Nochtspeicher
07 Berlin, Lido
09 Milan, Arci Bellezza
10 Zurich, Bogen F
11 Paris, La Maroquinerie
13 Brussels, Botanique
14 Amsterdam, Melkweg Old Hall
15 Lille, L’Aeronef
18 Manchester, Academy 2
19 Sheffield, The Foundry
20 Glasgow, SWG3 TV Studio
22 Bristol, Bristol Electric
23 Cardiff, Tramshed
24 Birmingham, XOYO
26 Brighton, Chalk
28 London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
31 Dublin, 3Olympia