Robyn Hitchcock Announces New Album ‘The Confuser,’ Shares “I Am This Thing”

Robyn Hitchcock has announced a new album, The Confuser, which will be out July 24 on Tiny Ghost Records. Depending on how and what you count, this is around his 23rd long-player and features Jeremy Fetzer (guitar), Todd Bolden (bass), and Eric Slick (drums), plus Robyn’s old Soft Boys bandmate Kimberly Rew.

“Can you recall first realising that you were basically just a tenant in your body: that it’s not yours in perpetuity? (Can I, for that matter?),” Robyn muses in a lead-up to talking about “I Am This Think,” the album’s first single. “It came to me in the summer of 2022, a golden age all of its own. I was standing waist-deep in the chilly English sea on Compton Bay, my favourite Isle of Wight beach, and found myself singing it, splashing about in the waves like a 5-year-old. I was that age when I first visited the Island, so perhaps being back in those waters for the first time since the pandemic triggered that song.”

As usual, Robyn has given us a very catchy song in his own inimitable style. Watch the “I Am This Thing” video below.

Robyn and his band will be busy on tour starting in April, and they play Woodstock’s Bearsville Theatre on June 10. All dates are listed below.

The Confuser
1. I Am This Thing 02:35 video
2. How To Feel Alright
3. My Dead Astronaut
4. Breathless
5. Ghost In Sunlight
6. Building From The Ruins
7. The Vanishing Kind
8. Yesterday’s Rain
9. Monday For Me
10. Wasted