3/30/2026

We Are Scientists' KEITH CARNE Finds Clarity in the Blur on “37 Hours”

We Are Scientists' 
KEITH CARNE
Finds Clarity in the Blur on 
37 Hours
 
Solo Debut out 4/20

 
Album Release Show at Brooklyn's Union Pool on 5/2
Keith Carne “37 Hours” (single artwork)
YouTube audio: https://youtu.be/tmEIXbKRNGM?si=ZA67MKMJAwPWDAMI
March 30, 2026 [New York, New York] – “37 Hours’ is largely about the intangible elements that shape our lives, and the spiritual forces that swirl around us. It’s best to make peace with them,” explains NYC-based musical multi-hyphenate KEITH CARNE about his newest single (out today). Taken from his upcoming debut solo Magenta Light (released independently on April 20, 2026), the track had been knocking around his head for about seven years after an epiphanic experience with insomnia. He adds, “I wrote the lyrics in a state of blissful lucidity. After being awake for 37-hours, I suddenly saw all these elements in the world that affect our daily lives so clearly, ones we so infrequently pay attention to. Elements like smoke and leaves seem to compose the background in our everyday world -- on this day became the foreground. Whether tangible or intangible, we don’t give them the regard they so deserve.”
 
Carne leans into this blissed-out introspection on “37 Hours,” a melancholic, guitar-driven, indie pop anthem that pulses with restless energy and spiritual curiosity. Driven by shimmering guitars and a steady, mesmerizing groove, the track captures the strange clarity that can emerge at the edge of exhaustion -where the physical and metaphysical begin to blur.

photo credit: Guy Eppel

“37 Hours” offers another vivid glimpse into Magenta Light, a sweeping, genre-blending body of work that marks a striking evolution for the longtime drummer and backing vocalist of We Are Scientists. Stepping confidently into the foreground as songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Carne threads together melancholic pop songwriting with expansive, atmospheric passages across the album - melding the earthly and the cosmic into something deeply personal and quietly transcendent.

The album was first introduced with lead single “Look For The Moon,” a tender, skybound love song written for Carne’s wife. Built on glistening synth textures and grounded in the emotional dissonance of life on the road, the track finds connection in distance - transforming longing into something luminous and shared. Together, “Look For The Moon” and “37 Hours” sketch the emotional and sonic duality at the heart of Magenta Light: intimacy and vastness, devotion and discovery. If “Look For The Moon” offered a point of connection, “37 Hours” dives deeper into the unknown - finding meaning not in certainty, but in the quiet, electric space between. 

To celebrate the release, Carne will perform a special album release show on May 2 at Brooklyn's Union Pool (484 Union Ave, at Meeker Ave., New York, NY 11211), bringing Magenta Light to life in an intimate setting that mirrors the record’s emotional immediacy and expansive scope.

37 Hours” is out now on all streaming platforms. Magenta Light will be released independently on April 20, 2026





Tracklist:

1. Totally Liminal
2. Keep Away
3. 36 & Counting
4. 37 Hours
5. Contortionist Jazz Exotica
6. Look For The Moon
7. Mist Trail
8. The Falls
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