Robbie Bennett of The War on Drugs Unveils Two Solo Albums

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The War on Drugs’ Robbie Bennett Sets Two New Solo Albums

The keyboardist has shared one song each from Steloken and Circulation By Hattie Lindert October 7, 2026 Save this story Save this story

The War on Drugs ’ keyboardist Robbie Bennett has two new albums dropping before the year is up. Both Steloken and Circulation will arrive on December 11 via American Dreams , adding 29 new tracks in total to Bennett’s solo catalog. Yesterday, he shared one song from each album; listen to “Sister” (from Steloken ) and “The Light on Your Face” (from Circulation ) below.

Both albums follow Bennett’s 2020 solo debut, Permanent World . He developed each track using the same keyboard he plays in the War on Drugs, but made them by sending MIDI from an acoustic player piano into an Oberheim OB-X8 synthesizer, permitting both instruments to play at once. He later incorporated layers of Fender Rhodes, vocoder, and Soma Terra, a “polyphonic microtonal synthesizer with a gyroscope and pressure-sensitive sensors.” “I want the music to be like you’re walking through an unfamiliar place you want to keep exploring and never have to circle back to where you started,” Bennett mused in press materials.

Last month, Bennett also featured on the War on Drugs’ first new song since 2022, “ Who’s That .” The band hasn’t released a solo record since 2021’s I Don’t Live Here Anymore , but they did return with their second career live album, aptly titled Live Drugs Again , in 2024.

Steloken : 01 Radii 02 Serendipity 03 Air Signals 04 Sea-Level Horizon 05 System of Warmth, Collection of Jackets 06 Snowfell 07 Darkness in Bloom 08 Sister 09 Moonframe 10 Footprints in the Ash 11 Horse to Lead 12 Lattun 13 Dragging out the Cans 14 Ascent 15 Cathedral 16 Purgatory 17 A Love Song / Universal Interface

Circulation :  01 Breathing Glass 02 Panthalassa 03 Norrland Night Train 04 Vermiculite 05 Change the Clocks (DST) 06 Phantom Signal 07 CACC (Hope) 08 ISO Dream 09 MN3009 10 The Light on Your Face 11 Vivere! 12 December

Hattie Lindert is an associate staff writer at Pitchfork. A former editor at Resident Advisor , she has written for Rolling Ston e, The FACE and The A.V. Club , among others. She’s based in New York, and born and raised in Vermont. ... Read More Contributor -

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