Philadelphia/New Jersey quintet Sweet Pill have announced their sophomore album Still There’s A Glow will be released on March 13, 2026, via Hopeless Records. They’ve also shared lead single ‘No Control,’ an alternately soaring and heavy track that premiered on Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show, and which showcases the rising band’s dynamism and singer Zayna Youssef’s full-hearted vocals.
“This is the first song we completed for Still There’s A Glow. At that time, I was feeling a bit…indulgent. Taking what I want, whenever I wanted it, and disregarding the world all at the same time. I felt like my self worth was cheap, and that I had no boundaries as a healthy person. I quite literally had no self control,” she explains of ‘No Control,’ out now alongside a Johnny Komar-directed video. “This song is sort of my way to rock bottom. It is my fancy way of calling myself a pushover, unconfident, and ungrateful. I had this ‘grass is always greener’ kind of mentality and wanted more when I already had it and then some.”
Still There’s a Glow is a hard-fought document of self-reflection and growth–raw and real, and stacked with lyrical honesty. Written and recorded in the wake of a whirlwind three years following their 2022 debut LP, Where the Heart Is–and after scrapping essentially an entire album’s worth of demos–Still There’s a Glow is a dynamic, cathartic journey of making conscious change within oneself. “I went through some depression last spring, and then I went into therapy. It was also a big turning point in my life as I was about to turn 30, while I’d written our first record when I was graduating from college–that’s a big change,” Youssef explains. “I could’ve kept making bad choices because they’re easy, but I had to come clean to myself. Half the album was written before and the other half after, so the songs are kind of hard on myself but some are also hopeful, with a light at the end of the tunnel. You put out a fire, there’s still an ember that’s still glowing–that’s the record. It’s about being at a low and climbing out of it.”
Still There’s A Glow:
- Sunblind
- Shameless
- No Control
- Glow
- Slow Burn
- Smoke Screen
- What the Devil Is Selling
- Makes Me Sick
- Rotten
- Jinx
- Tough Love
- Holding On
- Letting Go
