Brooklyn songwriter and trumpeter Tōth (Alex Toth of Rubblebucket) has announced his new album, And The Voice Said, arriving February 27, 2026, via Egghunt and Northern Spy.
The self-questioning record, described as being about “surviving yourself,” is co-produced by Caroline Rose and features a collaboration with Kimbra. It marks a focused solo return for Toth following years of recovery and navigating a public breakup while co-leading Rubblebucket. He describes the new music as “equal parts prayer and punchline, for anyone choosing to stay.”
Alongside the announcement, Tōth shared the infectious new single, “Not Broken.” Propelled by jaunty piano and bright horns, the track is an affirming “love song to his inner child.”
Its joyous accompanying video was filmed documentary-style on Coney Island. It captures Tōth performing and interacting with strangers, many of whom join in singing the song’s core lyric: “you’re not broken, you’re just blown wide open.”
On the track, Tōth shares: “I wrote this as a message to myself: a response to my darkest feelings about life. I may not show it outwardly, but my default is to be a pretty fucking negative guy. So I selfishly wrote a song that would hopefully help me feel a little better from time to time. ‘Please take me to my body / I wanna be somebody / And the voice said…you’re not broken…you’re just lost in emotions.’ This video is part documentary and part narrative. We spent 4-5 days out there talking to people and singing and dancing with them.”
On the video: “When I played the song for my friend Daniel Fox he immediately had a vision of many different people singing the song’s message. Daniel and his partner Maura (Momo & Fox) make documentary activist films (Gay Beach, More Perfect Union episode) and were already working on a film about Coney Island. Making it documentary style meant a lot more shoot days than usual. We went around talking to so many people, having really meaningful interactions and capturing many of the moments on film. I left each shoot day feeling so much more connected to New York City and to being a human being.”
Tōth credits Rose with helping him “find the edges” of his voice, noting they “wouldn’t let me hide behind abstraction.” The album explores Tōth’s complex spiritual journey, which he humorously summarises as his “attempt to kill the Buddha.”
“I’ve always felt conflicted about my spiritual strivings,” Tōth explains. “I never wanted to identify as a Buddhist because Buddhism is supposed to be about non-identity. There’s a classic Buddhist line: ‘If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha!’ This album is my attempt to kill the Buddha.”
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