Prison have shared a new single and video, Sunset Park, the second cut from their forthcoming third album, Big Rigs on the BQE, due July 31st via Drag City.
Where June’s lead single Sunrise Highway ran fast and garage-bred, Sunset Park slows the pace into something heavier. The single edit is trimmed from a nineteen-minute album track, one of two side-long pieces that make up the record. It was tracked at a Sunset Park studio with the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway running past the windows, and guitarist Matt Lilly, who also wrote and directed the video, has said the band built the track around vocal loops and studio processing while watching the traffic go by. The result leans into extended jamming, described as being somewhere between the reach of the Allman Brothers Band and the wiry tension of Mission of Burma.
The video, shot by Johnny Celentano, follows a loose, dreamlike logic: Lilly walking his infant self along a boardwalk, past a mid-shred Paul Major (also of Endless Boogie).
Big Rigs on the BQE brings together Prison regulars Sarim Al-Rawi, Lilly and Major on guitars and drums, Mike Donovan on fuzz organ, Ryan Sawyer on percussion and Matt Leibowitz (of Downstate) on bass and synth, with Adam Reich engineering and mixing. It follows 2025’s Downstate and 2023’s Upstate.
Prison tour the US in August.
Pre-Order Big Rigs on the BQE: https://lnk.to/bigrigs
Prison US Performances 2026
2nd Aug — Brooklyn, NY @ Mama Tried
13th Aug — Davenport, IA @ Raccoon Motel (Alternating Currents Festival)
14th Aug — Chicago, IL @ Solidarity Studios
15th Aug — Columbus, OH @ Rich Street Records
16th Aug — Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
23rd Aug — Rockaway Beach, NYC @ Rippers