I spend all day looking for a sign
I wait all week for something to find
And it takes so long just to take my time
There’s too much coming into my mind
Johnny Marr has announced his fifth solo studio album, The Age Of Everything, and unveiled its first single, “Spin.” The 10-track record is set for release on October 2 via BMG, marking Marr’s first collection of new original material since 2022’s Fever Dreams Pts. 1–4. The new single arrives with an official video conceptualized by Marr and filmed in Manchester.
The announcement lands exactly 40 years to the day after The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead was released on June 16, 1986—a fitting bit of calendar symmetry for a musician whose guitar work helped define the language of Indie-Rock worldwide.
“This is the record that’s been the most cathartic,” Marr says of The Age Of Everything. “The title came to me early in the process and became an inescapable idea. It seemed to sum up the way I think a lot of people are feeling. It’s all encompassing, but it’s not necessarily a negative statement. There’s a sense of overwhelm in the culture brought about by technology, but looking at it with a different light, there could also be a sense of possibility.”
Written in London, developed live on the road across the East Coast of North America, and recorded in Manchester, The Age Of Everything finds Marr moving through tension, optimism, and the jagged machinery of modern life. The album’s ten songs consider the world as it is—fraught, fast, and flickering—while refusing to surrender the future to dread.
As its first single, “Spin” does not open The Age Of Everything with Marr’s usual gleaming rush so much as a taut, introspective mid-tempo churn: a rubbery rhythmic bounce, darkened riffs, and a bass-forward groove pulling his indie-rock/post-punk vocabulary toward a subtly gothic edge. It is still unmistakably Marr—precise, melodic, elegantly cut—but there is a cooler shadow across it, a feeling of circular pressure rather than outright release.
The video, conceptualized by Marr and filmed in Manchester, mirrors that spiral. Shot largely through warped, wide-angle lenses, it places Marr in a stark, almost clinical white modernist interior: seated, pacing, staring into the camera, or holding his guitar like an object of meditation. The brightness is deceptive. The room bends at the edges, the image blooms and smears, and flashes of red tint, blue shadow, and double exposure gradually turn the domestic space into something more anxious and dreamlike. Between the performance shots are fast inserts of a black convertible cutting through green roads, reflections ghosting over Marr’s face, city streets sliding past under overpasses, and high-rise buildings looming upward. At points, fragments of text wash across the walls—“pure seeking,” “transparent layer,” “all touched”—as if the song’s mental overload has become part of the architecture itself.
Watch the video for “Spin” below:
The Age Of Everything will be accompanied by some of Marr’s biggest solo headline shows to date, including a homecoming date at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl on July 9 and a massive show at London’s Wembley Arena on October 24. Warm-up dates are also set for Leeds Stylus on July 6 and O2 Academy Liverpool on July 7.
Fans who pre-order The Age Of Everything through Marr’s official artist store receive access to an exclusive fan presale. The album will be available on CD, black vinyl, limited red vinyl, and an official-store exclusive three-colour splatter vinyl, along with merch bundles.
The Age Of Everything is out October 2 via BMG. Pre-order/pre-save the album here.
The Age Of Everything Tracklist
- “Spin”
- “Beyond The Rain”
- “It’s Time”
- “How Come”
- “Ophelia”
- “That Feeling”
- “In And Out Of Love”
- “Just Once More”
- “Fire With Fire”
- “All In A Life”
Johnny Marr Tour Dates:
- June 28 — Live is Live, Antwerp, Belgium
- July 4 — Down The Rabbit Hole, Ewijk, Netherlands
- July 6 — Stylus, Leeds, UK
- July 7 — O2 Academy, Liverpool, UK
- July 9 — Castlefield Bowl, Manchester, UK — Sold Out
- July 10 — Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, Ireland
- July 16 — Verona, Italy
- July 17 — Rome, Italy
- July 18 — Puglia, Italy
- July 20 — Udine, Italy
- July 21 — Sardinia, Italy
- July 23 — 1001 Músicas, Granada, Spain
- August 9 — OFF Festival, Katowice, Poland
- August 21 — Parkenfestivalen, Bodø, Norway
- October 24 — OVO Arena Wembley, London, UK
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