hemlocke springs releases the single gloria! as the MUNA tour starts

hemlocke springs has put out a new song called gloria!, released on 17 September, the same day she started a run of shows supporting MUNA. Stereogum's Danielle Chelosky filed it as new music that afternoon, framing the single as something the alt-pop singer is sharing to mark the start of the tour rather than as the opening move of a new record.

The year has already given her a bigger one. the apple tree under the sea, her first full-length studio album, arrived at the start of 2026 and Stereogum named it an Album Of The Week, which is the outlet's strongest weekly endorsement and not something it hands to debuts often.

Timing a single to the first night of a support tour is a deliberate move rather than a coincidence of the calendar. A MUNA audience is close enough to her own to be worth reaching on the night, and a song released that morning is the one a curious listener finds first when they look her up on the way home.

What the report does not carry is almost everything a reader would ask next. No dates for the MUNA run are listed, no label is named, nobody is credited on the recording, and nothing indicates whether gloria! belongs to a second album or stands on its own. Stereogum's item stops after a single paragraph behind a registration wall, so that is the full extent of what was published.

The single and the album both sit with the rest of the week's indie releases on the release calendar, where any follow-up would be logged if one is announced.