Angelo De Augustine Announces New Album ‘Angel in Plainclothes,’ Now Available to Pre-Order
Angelo De Augustine returns with his fifth album, Angel in Plainclothes — a deeply felt rendering of his multi-year journey of healing and renewal. The album releases on April 24, 2026 and is now available to pre-order and pre-save.
The first single is a standout psychedelic country piece, “Mirror Mirror,” and offers the first look at Angelo’s multi-year healing journey and the renewal that followed.
“Usually when I make music, I’ll sit down with one instrument and write the song,” states Angelo. “In ‘Mirror Mirror,’ I didn’t stick to this principle and was messing around with the tape machine’s varispeed function—seeing what would happen if I slowed down what I’d recorded on the bowed psaltery, creating an unusual droning noise. The song came from experimenting with layering sound in a very free way and watching as the structure of a song revealed itself.”
The forthcoming album, Angel in Plainclothes, showcases De Augustine’s powerful melodies and poignant lyrics across tracks like the haunting elegy “Empty Shell,” and the hopeful “Spirit of the Unknown.” Themes explore life’s fragility, second chances, and picking up the pieces after an undiagnosed illness forced him to re-learn basic abilities: “I’m trying to figure out who I am now,” De Augustine says. “I feel like I may have been given a second chance at life, and I’d like to live it.”
Written, recorded, arranged, produced, and mixed by the artist at his recording studio A Secret Place in Southern California, the album marks his first time welcoming collaborators in years, including string arranger Oliver Hill (Kevin Morby, Helado Negro), harpist Leng Bian, background vocalist/percussionist Wendy Fraser, as well as Thomas Bartlett (who produced De Augustine’s ‘Tomb,’ as well as St. Vincent, Bebel Gilberto), and Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), who played drums on and co-produced “The Cure.” The result is a powerful statement of hope: “One of the most helpful things that kept me going was the people in my life telling me that everything was ultimately going to be okay. I hope these songs end up having the same kind of effect on people out in the world, and help them know that miracles are possible.”
Tracklist:
- Empty Shell
- Pet Cemetery
- Spirit of the Unknown
- The Cure
- Mirror, Mirror
- Cosmic Ride
- The Universe Was Our Mother
- With a Love So Kind
- Pictures on My Wall
- Goodbye Baby Blue
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