Deb Never by Jason Garofolo
“ARCADE” WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TIPHRLsK4 LISTEN: https://found.ee/PreSaveARCADE
ARCADE PRE-SAVE/PRE-ORDER: https://found.ee/ARCADEAlbum
(February 12, 2026) - Washington state native Deb Never announces her long-awaited debut album ARCADE, out May 8th via Giant Music and the newly-shared title track “ARCADE”, which is accompanied by a new music video directed by Iris Kim, starring Deb and featuring cameos from Romil Hemnani, Q, supermodel*, Ashlan Grey and more. Deb also previewed the song to fans with the release of an online arcade game where fans could play out the box car race in the music video.
ARCADE intentionally centers Deb’s vocals and songwriting, stripping away dense production and emotional inaccessibility in favor of building intricate songs out of demos that she recorded intimately at home with just her guitar. That approach is embodied on the album’s previously released singles “Blue”, “KNOW ME BETTER”, and “Not In Love”. The album is now available to pre-save on all streaming platforms and a special vinyl edition of the album is now available to pre-order HERE, with art direction by Metals.
ARCADE mirrors the process in which it was made, pieced together through impromptu sessions, the spontaneity of life in LA and reflective moments spent writing that captured the arc of her life in that moment. It began as personal vignettes that were meant to capture her life entirely, and eventually flowed together into a focused, unshakeably vulnerable debut that chronicles the life-altering experience of a deeply felt relationship and its dissolution.
The vulnerability Deb embraces on this album is a far cry from how it was recorded. She worked with executive producer Romil Hemnani, who helped mold these songs with Deb’s essence in mind and add meaningful texture to the intimacy of her early bedroom demos, while a cadre of friends like boylife, Dominic Fike and more flowed in and out of the studio at any given time. That contrast, between the calmness of these songs and how they began in her bedroom and the chaotic restlessness of the studio, grounds the album in Deb’s true life experience. “There's always so much going on, there's always people around me, I'm always surrounded,” Deb says of how ARCADE was made. “But I always felt this singularity and this isolation and in my music is the only time where I can really express that.”
Deb first hinted at a realized debut album through a series of singles released in 2024 and 2025, a year which began with Deb being highlighted as one of Amazon Music’s 2025 Artists to Watch. Deb also played some of the biggest venues of her career on the road with Wallows across the Midwest and East Coast last Spring, closing the year with a standout performance at the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival on the Dodger Stadium grounds in LA. ARCADE finds Deb returning to the stripped-down essence of her beloved debut EP House on Wheels, which arrived after she made a standout contribution to BROCKHAMPTON’s fifth studio album GINGER in 2019.
Deb’s artistic evolution continued with the release of two subsequent EPs, 2021’s Where Have All The Flowers Gone? and Thank You For Attending in 2023, culminating in her debut full-length. Deb has collaborated with peers, producers and songwriters like Kenny Beats, Biig Piig, Audrey Nuna, D33J, Shlohmo, Jim-E-Stack (Charli xcx, HAIM, Bon Iver), Michael Percy (Snoh Alegra, Joy Crookes), and Jam City (Olivia Rodrigo, Kelela, Troye Sivan), and has toured with Omar Apollo, Dominic Fike, slowthai and Tommy Genesis. Deb has also caught the eye of the fashion world, being featured in campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, YSL, GANNI, Burberry and Givenchy.
Check out “ARCADE” above, see below for more album info and stay tuned for more from Deb coming soon.
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