Blondie Announce ‘High Noon,’ Their First Album in a Decade — and the Last With Clem Burke

Fifty years after they emerged from the mid-1970s CBGB punk scene, Blondie are still making records — and the next one now has a name, a date and a weight no one in the band wanted it to carry. According to New Noise Magazine, the band have announced their 12th studio album, High Noon, due February 26, 2027 from BMG. It is their first new music in a decade, New Noise Magazine reported, and their final recording with drummer and co-founder Clem Burke, who died of cancer in 2025. Consequence, reporting the same announcement, put the gap at nine years since 2017’s Pollinator — the band’s first album of new material since that record.

The news arrived with music attached. New Noise Magazine reported that the album’s lead single, “Spectral Eyes,” was released alongside the announcement with a visualizer. Consequence added the detail that makes the single a small piece of rock history on its own: the song was written by Johnny Marr, who also contributes guitar, and it opens the album. JamBase likewise reported that Marr wrote the track and plays on it, and that the 13-song collection is previewed by the single, which Marr had originally released in an earlier solo form.

Recorded live in a room, across three years

High Noon was not assembled quickly or remotely. Consequence reported that recording began in New York City in 2022 with producer John Congleton — who had previously worked with the band on Pollinator — and that David Wrench later joined for additional production and mixing. JamBase reported that much of the recording took place with the musicians playing together in the same room. The sessions ran, across 2022 to 2025, long enough that they became something nobody planned: Burke’s final work with the band he helped start. Consequence noted that the sessions became Burke’s last recordings with Blondie, though the band had no way of knowing that when work began, and JamBase reported that Burke appears across the album.

Debbie Harry said in a statement reported by Consequence: “This album is classic Blondie — an amalgamation of all our different influences and eras into something new. This music feels grounded in the present, shaped by who we are and how we’re living now.” Chris Stein said, in comments reported by Consequence: “It’s been a long, strange ride, and somehow here we are with another Blondie album,” adding that the band are incredibly grateful for their fans’ support over the years.

A guest list drawn from the band’s own universe

The album’s collaborators read like a map of Blondie’s influence. Consequence reported that Marr is one of several guests across the record, alongside former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, Beirut’s Zach Condon, and Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius. JamBase carried the same guest list. Several songs pull directly from the extended Blondie family history: Consequence reported that Stein wrote “Heartbreak Kid” with Johnny Thunders in mind, that Matlock penned “Sleepwalking,” and that “Little Metal Drummer” revisits a song first recorded by founding Blondie keyboardist Jimmy Destri for his 1981 solo album Heart on a Wall — a recording whose original version also featured Harry and Burke.

Noise11 published the full 13-song tracklist: “Spectral Eyes,” “Heartbreak Kid,” “Come Back Home,” “Tambo Tambo,” “Man Who Had No Face,” “The End,” “Little Metal Drummer,” “Sleepwalking,” “Whistle Into the Wind,” “Antifreeze,” “East of Eden,” “Bad Underwear,” and the closing “Ah, Sunflower, Weary of Time,” whose title Noise11 noted comes from a William Blake poem. Noise11 also reported that the album’s visual identity comes from longtime collaborator Rob Roth, blending elements of the band’s past with a more cinematic, forward-looking style.

The last word from the kit

Every Blondie era — the CBGB club days, the chart-topping run of Parallel Lines and “Heart of Glass,” the reunion decades — had the same man behind the drums. Burke, Harry and Stein formed the original core of the band in New York in 1974, as Noise11 recounted in its announcement coverage, and Burke’s playing was the engine under all of it: precise, powerful, and recognizably his within two bars. Noise11 reported that he died in April 2025 at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer. Because High Noon was recorded between 2022 and 2025, his presence is complete rather than patched in — a full final performance, made without anyone knowing it was one.

That gives February 26, 2027 a double meaning. It is the return of one of the original CBGB bands with a new album, a Johnny Marr single and a half-century of history folded into thirteen songs. And it is a farewell, pressed into the record itself, from a drummer whose bandmates have been clear about what he meant to the group’s identity. High Noon is available to preorder now, per New Noise Magazine’s report, and “Spectral Eyes” is out now. Explore the band’s catalog on Blondie’s artist page in Previously’s music library, and find more of the week’s album announcements on the music front.