Seattle rocker Ayron Jones is back with Excuse Me, due February 26, 2027 via Thirty Tigers. It's his first album in three years and the first he calls fully on his own terms. The first single, "Glad You Came," is out now with a lyric video, and Spin premiered the song with an in-depth feature.

Recorded in Nashville with longtime collaborator Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne), the album leans into grunge, metal, soul and hip-hop, with drop-tuned guitars and working-class anthems about economic pressure, uncertainty and anger. Jones says "Glad You Came" is about intense connections, toxic relationships and accountability: "Not every connection is meant to last, but there's beauty in the experience." Of the album he says, "This is the record where every part of my artistry comes together," and that he'd spent years feeling like he was playing a "rock star" character the industry built. "This is me."

Jones broke out during the pandemic as the first Black solo artist to land a Number One on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and has played with the Rolling Stones in Paris in front of 70,000 people.

TRACKLIST: 1. Strike Of A Match 2. Glad You Came 3. Hollywood 4. What You Need 5. A La Prochaine 6. Fate 7. Freedom 8. When My Day Comes 9. Coming Of A New Age 10. Hang On

TOUR: Dec 5 Kent, WA (Accesso ShoWare Center); Dec 6 Lincoln, CA (Thunder Valley); Mar 11-20, 2027 France run (Nantes, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Paris Bataclan on Mar 16, Lyon, Reims, Strasbourg); Aug 22 El Reno, OK (KATTfest).

Links: pre-save https://30tgrs.ffm.to/excuseme | single https://30tgrs.ffm.to/gladyoucame