We Are Scientists' KEITH CARNE Steps Into the Foreground with Debut Solo Album 'Magenta Light'

We Are Scientists'  KEITH CARNE Steps Into the Foreground with Debut Solo Album  Magenta Light   Video for “Totally Liminal” Out Today   Album Release Show at Brooklyn's Union Pool on 5/2 Keith Carne “Totally Liminal" YouTube audio: https://youtu.be/C45VPqvGSXA?si=Wq9nakSw2dxIVz8v April 20, 2026 [New York, New York] – Both a departure and an arrival, Keith Carne’s debut solo album Magenta Light (which is independently released today) dissolves the boundaries between the earthly and the cosmic, pairing intimate songwriting with expansive, atmospheric passages. After more than a decade behind the drum kit as a core member of indie-pop mainstays We Are Scientists, Carne steps into a new dimension with the release of Magenta Light. A sweeping, genre-blurring statement of intent, the album finds Carne embracing his role as songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, crafting a world where melancholic pop, spiritual jazz, and propulsive electronic textures collide.  Coinciding with the album’s release, Carne shares the official video for album standout “Totally Liminal,” a track that distills the record’s philosophical core into a restless, searching anthem. “‘Totally Liminal’ is a song about streaming - how most of us seem to be streaming from one place to the next, one obsession to the next, one album to the next… and how ephemeral the things in our lives feel anymore,” Carne explains. “I long for experiences and art that allow me to burrow into them.”  In the video Carne attempts to deliver that message by embodying a conspiracy theorist searching for something just out of reach. “He’s kind of a soapbox preacher (a theosophical preacher to be more precise),” Carne adds. “He’s desperately trying to get this same message across, while he also desperately searches for something… It’s a message whose implications range from the intrapersonal all the way to the extraterrestrial.”  Directed by Al Markman (Twin Shadow, Frances Rose, Red Bull, MasterCard, Chase), the visual mirrors the song’s surreal urgency with a balance of irreverence and intention. “Keith and I have very similar tastes when it comes to the cinema - trash and ‘high’ art - and this is the result of both that and the energy of a couple best friends getting to make something weird together,” says Markman. “Please note the Hal Phillip Walker pin Keith wears on his vest.  Keith Carne  photo credit: Guy Eppel Written and recorded in his Midtown Manhattan studio - often bathed in the glow of literal magenta light - the album is threaded together by themes of connection and dislocation, the unseen forces that shape our lives, and the fleeting moments that anchor us in place. Drawing inspiration from the explosive spirituality of Pharoah Sanders and the immediacy of modern dance music, Carne creates a sonic landscape that feels at once deeply personal and infinitely vast. Magenta Light was first introduced with lead single “Look For The Moon,” a tender, skybound love song written for Carne’s wife, capturing the emotional distance and quiet rituals of connection forged while touring. Built on glistening synth textures and grounded vulnerability, the single offered a luminous entry point into Carne’s solo world. Follow-up single “37 Hours” expanded that vision outward, channeling a state of blissful lucidity into a guitar-driven indie-pop anthem. Inspired by the strange clarity of prolonged wakefulness, the track meditates on the intangible forces that shape our daily lives - the overlooked details, the spiritual currents, and the unseen connections that bind everything together. Together, these songs form the emotional and philosophical backbone of Magenta Light, an album that resists easy categorization while inviting listeners to sit with its contradictions. It’s a record about movement and stillness, searching and surrender, the known and the unknowable. To celebrate the release, Carne will bring Magenta Light to life with a special album release show on May 2 at NYC's Union Pool (484 Union Ave, at Meeker Ave. New York, NY 11211). Magenta Light is out now on all streaming platforms. 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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