Is Zach Bryan Planning to Release New Music Before His Stagecoach 2025 Set?

With Zach Bryan returning to Instagram to tease yet another unreleased song, speculatively titled either ‘In Another Life’ or ‘You & I’, it seems his next body of work is on the horizon.

Since the early days of DeAnn and Elisabeth, Zach Bryan has established himself as one of the most prolific artists in the modern country scene. When he’s not releasing studio albums, he’s usually surprising us with singles, EPs and full-blown live projects.

However, in his Rolling Stone interview with Bruce Springsteen last year, Zach Bryan revealed that he was making a point of being more deliberate with his next album, with the Oklahoma native choosing to sit with the songs, rather than rush them out.

As a result, in Zach Bryan terms, it’s been a relatively dry spell since his lauded July 2024 album, The Great American Bar Scene. There was no sign of the traditional follow-up EP, and while we got a couple of singles in November, it felt like they were primarily designed to distract fans from the troubling accusations being levelled at the ‘Something in the Orange’ hitmaker by his ex, Brianna LaPaglia.

Then, Zach Bryan's excitement about the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl run spilled over into a couple of standalone drops, ‘Blue Jean Baby’ and ‘Dear Miss’, but neither of these singles are thought to be part of any of Bryan's forthcoming projects.

The two November tracks, ‘High Road’ and ‘This World's a Giant’, on the other hand, are expected to appear on Zach Bryan's long-teased With Heaven On Top EP. Grumpy - who sings on both singles - has been confirmed as featuring on the EP's title-track, too.

As well as With Heaven On Top, the ‘I Remember Everything’ chart-topper has revealed that he'll be releasing “one final major label album”, which is believed to be titled Motorbreath. Interestingly, Grumpy also provides backing vocals on the title-track to this record.

In January, Bryan shared a Matthew McConaughey-voiced introduction to the album's accompanying documentary, with the project being crafted during a two-week motorcycle ride.

Over the past few months, we've been hit with a dizzying array of unreleased clips, snippets and demos from Zach Bryan, including tracks such as ‘Always Willin’, ‘Santa Fe’, ‘Metal’, ‘Skin’, ‘River Road Drive’, ‘Dark Brown Eyes’ and various others.

It's not clear, though, which songs are part of the EP, which are on the album and which will simply be cast aside onto Zach Bryan's expansive heap of unreleased fan-favourites.

With Zach Bryan gearing up for his momentous Stagecoach Festival 2025 headline set at the end of April, we're wondering whether the country-folk trailblazer is planning to release at least some of this wealth of new music prior to taking the stage.

Bryan has a smattering of blockbuster shows lined up for 2025, with the ‘Pink Skies’ crooner repeatedly underlining that he won't be embarking on a full-blown tour. Even so, he has major dates on the books at London's BST Hyde Park, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Ann Arbor's colossal Michigan Stadium and more - and given the scale of these performances, you'd imagine Bryan will want to drop a few new tracks ahead of that run, to give him some fresh material for his setlist.

Most of his 2025 shows take place across the summer, with Zach Bryan starting in Europe at Dublin's Phoenix Park on June 20th before bringing his arsenal of wistful earworms and rock-tinged anthems to London, New Jersey, California, West Virginia, Indiana and Michigan over the rest of June, July, August and September.

April's Stagecoach performance, therefore, feels like somewhat of an outlier. Stagecoach has long been considered one of the biggest - if not the biggest - country events on the calendar, with various artists using the Indio extravaganza as the platform from which to launch new album rollouts. Post Malone did it in 2024 by debuting ‘I Had Some Help’ with Morgan Wallen, while it seems Lana Del Rey is gearing up to take a similar approach this month, ahead of her debut full-length country project, The Right Person Will Stay, which drops on May 21st.

Could Zach Bryan be plotting to do the same with either With Heaven On Top or Motorbreath? Or is Bryan planning to drop one of these projects before Stagecoach, so that he has some brand new tunes to serenade the audience with on April 25th?

We'll have to wait and see, but it must be highlighted that Zach Bryan has a penchant for Spring releases. His magnum opus, American Heartbreak, arrived on May 20th and Elisabeth dropped on May 8th, while his viral hit, ‘Pink Skies’, was released on May 24th.

At the start of February, Zach Bryan announced that With Heaven On Top was coming “sooner than not”, and it certainly seems as though this will be dropping before Motorbreath.

We're predicting that Zach Bryan is readying the EP for an April release, ahead of Stagecoach, with his album to follow in early June, prior to kicking off his summer series of shows. Of course, this is all mere conjecture, but we'll be keeping our fingers crossed that Bryan is getting ready to gift us new music in the coming weeks.

Regardless of when these projects are set to arrive, one thing is for sure: Zach Bryan might not be touring in 2025, but he's on track for a very busy year of releases - and we can't wait.

For the full lyrics so far to Zach Bryan's newly teased song, seemingly titled ‘In Another Life’, see below:

“Kids are falling in their reds like we used to
There’s a shitty cover band playing Nelson tunes
If I could drive, if I could fly, I could dare soon
In another life, lover, I reckon it’s true

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I try to get some rest before I head to the city
There ain’t no rest for the wicked, depressed, or pretty
Left some flowers on the corner of Chrysanthrope
In another life you take off your summer clothes

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In the back of some cars the rain came down
On some beach or some bar or some coastal town
And you laugh as folks pass under the summer skies
In another life, lover, there’s a you and I”

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Featured photo by Laura Ord