Against The Current Drop ‘Always You & I’ Before UK Autumn Tour

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Against The Current drop new single ‘Always You & I’ and release ‘Dead Man Walking’ video ahead of their 17-date Til Death & Back Tour this autumn

Against The Current have released Always You & I, a new single and another preview of their upcoming album, arriving July 3, 2026 alongside the official music video for recent single “Dead Man Walking.” The Poughkeepsie trio, fronted by Chrissy Costanza, have been building toward their next full-length project through a series of singles that demonstrate both their melodic range and their willingness to operate across the emotional spectrum of contemporary pop rock. “Always You & I” lands firmly in the record’s most openly romantic territory, and it arrives with a 17-date Til Death & Back Tour announced for autumn, including five UK dates before a run through Europe.

The song’s emotional premise is immediately clear from Costanza’s own description of it. “‘Always You & I’ is about a love that transcends time, a soulmate that is destined across every lifetime,” she explains. “It’s about finding that person who is so certain and familiar that meeting them feels like coming home from the very first moment. They are the answer to every question; until the very end of all things, it was always them.” That framing positions “Always You & I” as the kind of love song that reaches for something bigger than a single relationship, using the specific to address the universal, which is exactly the register where Against The Current’s best songwriting has always operated.

‘Dead Man Walking,’ Ryan Valdez, and the Double Release

The accompanying video for “Dead Man Walking,” directed by longtime Against The Current collaborator Ryan Valdez, arrives simultaneously with the new single, giving fans two pieces of visual and sonic content in the same release window. The Valdez relationship is a meaningful one in the context of Against The Current’s visual identity. Consistent creative partnerships tend to produce more coherent visual albums across a campaign, and the decision to premiere the “Dead Man Walking” video at this moment, as “Always You & I” arrives, suggests a campaign that understands the value of building rather than simply dropping.

“Always You & I” follows “Dead Man Walking” in a singles rollout that is doing the work of establishing the emotional range of the forthcoming album before it has a formal title or release date. The two tracks sit at different ends of the band’s dynamic: “Dead Man Walking” with a harder, more confrontational energy; “Always You & I” with the openness and certainty of a love song that does not hedge. Together they draw a clear picture of what the record is likely to contain.

The Til Death & Back Tour and What Autumn Looks Like

The 17-date Til Death & Back Tour begins October 30 in Glasgow at SWG3 TV Studio and runs through Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, and London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire before crossing to mainland Europe. The European leg moves through Paris, Saarbrücken, Brussels, Cologne, Utrecht, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Stuttgart, and Wiesbaden, closing November 21. The O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire date on November 4 is the UK headline of the routing, a venue that holds 2,000 in its main room and represents a significant step up in London headline scale for the band.

Against The Current formed in 2011 and have spent fifteen years building an internationally devoted fanbase through consistent recording and a touring footprint that has taken them through festival appearances, arena support slots, and increasingly ambitious headline runs. The Til Death & Back Tour is the most geographically ambitious headline run of their career to date, and the singles campaign building toward it has delivered enough material to understand why the confidence behind that routing is warranted.

Full Til Death & Back Tour Dates:
Oct 30 Glasgow SWG3

Oct 31 Leeds Beckett Students Union

Nov 1 Manchester Academy

Nov 3 Birmingham O2 Institute

Nov 4 London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Nov 6 Paris Le Trianon

Nov 7 Saarbrücken Garage

Nov 8 Brussels Ancienne Belgique

Nov 11 Cologne E-Werk

Nov 12 Utrecht TivoliVredenburg

Nov 13 Hamburg Grosse Freiheit 36

Nov 14 Berlin Metropol

Nov 16 Vienna Simm City

Nov 17 Munich Muffathalle

Nov 19 Zurich Komplex 457

Nov 20 Stuttgart LKA Longhorn

Nov 21 Wiesbaden Schlachthof

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Ezra Calloway

Ezra Calloway grew up in Austin in a household where the radio was always on and the argument about what counted as real rock music never fully ended. He covers rock, alternative, and indie for Latetown Magazine, drawn to the artists who are doing something genuinely strange with the format rather than playing it safe. He spent four years writing for an Austin-based music publication before going independent, picking up bylines across several US digital outlets along the way. He has a particular obsession with guitar-driven records that most streaming algorithms will never surface and considers that a personal mission to fix.

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