Dirty Honey are starting album three with a double shot. The band released “Lights Out” and “Butterfly” on September 18, offering the first two singles from Catch My Butterfly. Produced by John Feldmann, the album arrives January 15, 2027.
For singer Marc LaBelle, getting to a third record is an achievement in itself. In the album announcement, he described a band that has made mistakes, learned to live with them and carried those lessons into its writing. “I’m very proud of our perseverance,” LaBelle said. “Any band has to really survive to make a third record.”
His explanation of what changed is refreshingly specific: studio decisions they regretted, experiences they had yet to live through and songwriting that needed time to develop. “We’ve made mistakes in the studio, gotten over past regrets, lived more, and become better songwriters,” he said. “All of those things snowballed into Catch My Butterfly.”
There is a change behind the console, too. Feldmann takes the producer’s chair for the followup to Can’t Find the Brakes, which Dirty Honey recorded with Nick DiDia. For those earlier sessions, the band traveled to Byron Bay, Australia, in April 2023 after touring the U.K. and Europe, according to their management’s announcement. The new record pairs those accumulated experiences with a different producer.
Dirty Honey’s introduction to a national audience came before either of those albums. In 2019, “When I’m Gone” became the first song by an unsigned artist to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. Their self titled debut album followed in 2021, with Can’t Find the Brakes arriving two years later. LaBelle’s comments put the emphasis on what happened after that initial breakthrough: learning how to keep writing together once a band has records, expectations and regrets behind it.
The two new singles offer an early look at different points in the upcoming album. “Lights Out” opens the 14 song track list, while “Butterfly” appears sixth. Both are available across streaming services ahead of the full release.
Preorders for Catch My Butterfly are open through Dirty Honey’s official store on CD and red vinyl, with a signed vinyl edition also available.
