Június 12-án érkezik Josh Klinghoffer negyedik szólólemeze, A Drop In The Ocean címmel. Az album már előrendelhető az OrgMusic oldalán. A bejelentéssel együtt érkezett egy új dal is a lemezről, címe Peer Into Your Dreams.
Josh Klinghoffer has spent most of his life moving—between bands, studios, tours, and collaborations—but the songs he creates for his solo project Pluralone can feel more isolated, mysterious, nonlinear, and newly urgent. “For the first time in my life,” Klinghoffer says, “I no longer feel like I have all the time in the world.”
In his fourth album, A Drop in the Ocean, out from Org Music on June 12, 2026, Klinghoffer had a desire to return to the basics: just himself with an acoustic guitar, where many of these songs first took shape. This decision was grounding for Klinghoffer, a multi-instrumentalist accustomed to endless sonic choices. Now, writing on acoustic guitar, he felt he could regain some of the clarity that gets lost when working on songs for years at a time. Some songs, like “I Feel Like I’ve Done Wrong,” date back to 2022; others, like “Give,” have lingered for close to two decades.
The album’s closing track, “Sadly,” leaves intact an iPhone voice memo of Klinghoffer writing the song in real time. “I knew I’d never outdo the innocence of that moment,” he says about the decision to not re-record the piano. “I’m gonna try,” Klinghoffer sings in “Sadly,” “No idea why / It’s a drop in the ocean.” This speaks to Klinghoffer’s relentless determination to create music in an era of constant distraction, suggesting that the act of creation itself, even in its roughest form, may be the whole point.
In the first single, “Peer Into Your Dreams,” a fragile folk-inspired pattern opens a disorienting meditation on perception and wandering inside someone else’s imagined world (“Are you really with me?” he asks). In the second single, “Ranting and Raving,” soft electric guitar is layered with acoustic guitar and then soaring synths as Klinghoffer sings: “I hear you’re always ranting and raving / Making up for having no one to count on / Telling myself I’m wrong now.” The “you” throughout the album remains unstable: sometimes it seems as if Klinghoffer is speaking directly to himself, asking, Did I do the right thing?
This album also sees Klinghoffer expanding the world of Pluralone—he brought on past collaborator Eric Palmquist as a producer for the first time, and writer Chelsea Hodson sings backing vocals on a few songs. One of the songs, “Give,” is anchored in Nashville tuning, a technique typically used for shimmer and texture rather than as a song’s foundation. This kind of unlikely decision adds up to a heightened sense of atmosphere, and the feeling that Klinghoffer is in new territory here, building a world distinctly his own.
Loss is a central theme of the album: whether confronting grief on “I Hope You Knew” (quietly released on March 25, the anniversary of friend Taylor Hawkins’ passing), or anticipating heartbreak on “I Don’t Want to Let You Go” (in which the lyrics “Look up at the sky / Wondering how and why” lead into the album’s closest thing to a lighter-in-the-air moment of hope).
Klinghoffer recorded these songs at his own NowSpace and at Palmquist Studios, both in El Sereno, California. In between high-profile stints for Pearl Jam, Elton John & Brandi Carlile, and Jane’s Addiction, one gets the sense that Pluralone emerges as the space he returns to when the noise subsides.
“My whole life has been about learning to enjoy the process rather than rushing to get to the result,” Klinghoffer says. The past four years are the longest stretch he’s endured between Pluralone albums, and that patience is audible within the album’s lived-in intimacy. As he sings in “Peer Into Your Dreams”: “Isn’t it freeing / A slight change in belief?”
