Mayday Parade have announced Sugar, the third and final part of an ambitious album trilogy, due 24 July 2026. The record closes out the band’s 20th anniversary and arrives with a new single and video, ‘Weekend Music’, out now.
Sugar follows Sweet and Sad, completing a run that has seen the Tallahassee five piece write, record and release close to 30 songs across roughly two years. If Sweet leaned into their most immediate, energetic side and Sad turned inward, Sugar is pitched as the meeting point of the two, produced once again by longtime collaborators Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount.
Lead single ‘Weekend Music’ is one of the album’s brightest moments, and frontman Derek Sanders admits it came as a relief. “When we began working on Sugar … I started to get concerned that we had overextended ourselves,” he says. “‘Weekend Music’ is one of the songs that came together and put me at ease … It feels good to be able to create a song that we’re proud of so deep into our career.”
The ten track album moves from the driving ‘Lying To Myself’ and the glossy ‘Two Hearts’ to the nostalgic ‘Sweet Sad Sugar’, before closing on ‘What Happens Next’.
The trilogy caps a busy stretch that included Mayday Parade’s biggest North American headline tour, a return to the Vans Warped Tour main stage, and shows alongside All Time Low, Simple Plan and Jack’s Mannequin. With more than 1.43 billion streams and a catalogue that helped shape a generation of emo and pop punk, they remain a reliable emotional touchstone for that scene.
Sugar tracklist:
- Set Phasers To Bummed
- Blame It On The Youth
- Sweet Sad Sugar
- Weekend Music
- Lying To Myself
- Two Hearts
- Don’t Give Up On Me
- Patriotism Of First Tiger Called Into Question
- So The Story Goes
- What Happens Next
