Karaoke Bar

Karaoke Bar is the seventh studio album from Australian sibling duo Angus & Julia Stone, released September 4, 2026 via Virgin Music^[1]. It follows 2024's Cape Forestier and was written and recorded across Greece, France, and Australia^[2].

The album takes its name and premise from a single night out on the Greek island of Hydra, not far from what was once Leonard Cohen's home there. Julia Stone has described the album's core idea as the belief that a night at a karaoke bar can hold real goodness, since it gives ordinary people a chance to be heard by strangers, even briefly^[1]. The title track, written during downtime on the siblings' 2024 tour, folds in a nod to Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" as a shorthand for that kind of shared, unglamorous communal joy^[2].

Across its ten tracks, the record expands the duo's acoustic indie-folk foundation into synth-pop, psychedelia, gentle funk, and alt-country textures, while staying anchored by their familiar intertwined vocals^[2]. Thematically, the album returns repeatedly to memory and impermanence: old photographs, songs on the radio, and the sense that the people who happen to be nearby in a given moment matter more than the setting itself^[3]. Critics have generally described it as a confident, welcome adjustment to the duo's sound rather than a full reinvention, with a few reviewers noting that some mid-tempo stretches blur together even as more adventurous tracks break the pattern^[2][3].