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Catch Your Breath Ready Sophomore Album Not Broken Enough
Eleven songs, two vinyl pressings, and a hard cap of 500 copies on the rare one.
Do the math on Catch Your Breath right now and you get a strange number: nearly 77 million streams on "Dial Tone" alone, set against a vinyl run capped at exactly 500. That gap — a song heard by tens of millions, pressed onto a format available to a rounding error of that audience — is the real story sitting underneath the announcement of the band's sophomore album, Not Broken Enough.
The Austin-based alt-rock outfit built its name on "Dial Tone," and Thriller Records is framing this record as the direct continuation of that momentum rather than a reinvention. Not Broken Enough arrives August 28, 2026, carrying a 2026 copyright under the label, and the label's own pitch leans on a familiar but specific blend: heavy riffs, synth-driven soundscapes, anthemic melodies, emotionally charged vocals. Revolver, previewing the record separately, goes further and predicts heavier riffs, bigger hooks, and some of the band's most personal songwriting yet — a claim worth noting precisely because it's Revolver's read, not a guarantee baked into the tracklist.
## Three Ways to Actually Own It
Physical formats are where this rollout gets genuinely interesting. The scarce option is a Blue & Magenta Blend vinyl LP limited to 500 copies — a number small enough that it functions less like merch and more like a collector's dare. Sitting alongside it is a standard Blue vinyl pressing sold through Tower Records under the Invogue Records imprint, which reads as the accessible counterpart for anyone who wants the record on wax without chasing a limited run. For listeners who'd rather skip vinyl entirely, Impericon carries a CD digipak with a 6-page insert, the kind of format that still rewards people who want liner notes and packaging over a Spotify tile.
Three formats, three price points, three different relationships to scarcity — that's a deliberate structure, not an afterthought. A band with breakout streaming numbers doesn't need vinyl to reach people; they need it to reward the people who already found them.
## What Eleven Songs Might Be Building
The tracklist splits cleanly across the vinyl's two sides. Side A carries Contaminated, Red Alert, Blood Money, Carnivore, and Control — five titles that read aggressive and confrontational in sequence, front-loading the record with its harder edges if the sequencing is any guide. Side B shifts register on the page at least: Rewind, Lost, Dark, The Basement, [Gen]inside, and Hollow Dreams, six tracks that lean toward interiority and memory before closing on a title as evocative as Hollow Dreams.
That's restrained interpretation of a running order, not a review — nobody outside the band has heard these eleven songs, and titles alone don't confirm tone. But titling is still a choice, and Catch Your Breath chose to open Side A with a word as blunt as Contaminated and close Side B on Hollow Dreams. If Revolver's "most personal songwriting to date" tip holds, the second side is the more obvious place to listen for it.
What ties the whole release together is Thriller Records' own framing: Not Broken Enough as the next chapter in the band's rise through modern rock, built on the emotional intensity and momentum "Dial Tone" already established. That's a label talking its own book, worth reading as intent rather than verdict. Still, intent matters here — it tells you this is being positioned as a scale-up record, not a left turn.
The more useful question isn't whether Not Broken Enough will be good. It's whether a band whose audience was built entirely on streaming can convert even a sliver of 77 million plays into demand for a vinyl pressing that tops out at 500 copies. If that limited Blue & Magenta run sells through before release day, it says something real about how streaming-era fandom is starting to spend money again — and it'll say it faster than any track review can.
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