Under a Landslide of Stars
About this Album
Under a Landslide of Stars is the first solo album in over a decade from Jay Malinowski, released under the moniker MALINOWSKI on April 3, 2026 via Dine Alone Records[4]. Recorded at Armoury Studios in Vancouver and mixed in Los Angeles by Davey Badiuk, the record pairs sparse, intimate songwriting with grand, choir-driven arrangements, including gospel singers from New Orleans and a 150-person community choir recorded live in a church in Victoria, British Columbia[1].
Malinowski has described the album's animating idea as love and devotion pulled in two directions at once: the grounded, personal love he holds for his wife Steph and son Finn, set against fictional characters whose fanatical devotion to faith curdles into violence[1][2]. Reviewers have described the record as feeling both deeply intimate and philosophically vast, tracing love as it widens outward until its expression inverts, then circling back toward the sacredness of small, ordinary gestures[3]. Songs like "Deeper Than Blue" and "Half-Moon Bay" carry the record's personal, domestic love, functioning as the emotional anchor against the album's more turbulent, fanatical material[3].
The ten-track sequence opens with "Rain-Maker" and closes on the title song, but its middle stretch keeps circling back to conflict imagery: "Son Of A Gun," the lead single "Holy Guns," and "Wheels Of War" run back to back before the record turns toward gentler, domestic material in its back half. Malinowski has traced his interest in massed voices to his own childhood, recalling that he used to sing hymns at school and has always found the sound of groups singing together profound.