Today, Hen Ogledd, the collaborative project of artist Sawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington, announce ‘DISCOmBOBULATED’, their confounding and haunting new album set for release on February 20, 2026.

It’s perhaps their most complex and emotionally charged record to date, involving meditations on political tumult, personal crisis and mental wellbeing in a world gone mad, yet also their most warmly inclusive and accessible. “There’s something to Hen Ogledd that’s not really like a normal band” says Richard Dawson. “It’s something… else.”

‘DISCOMBOBULATED’ will be their third album and marks a considerable step forward in their evolution. The initial sessions for the record took place in early 2024, having been “rallied”, in Rhodri Davies’s words, by drummer Will Guthrie to get into a room together to develop the various ideas each member had. Living in different parts of the UK, Hen Ogledd often have to share sketches of music remotely before coming together to hammer them into shape. Often, as on this record, with producer Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle.

Hen Ogledd, names after the Welsh term for ‘The Old North’, the historical and political region encompassing what is now northern England and southern Scotland during the Early Middle Ages, coalesced slowly in the middle of the last decade. Davies and Dawnson first began collaborating in 2013, but Hen Ogledd did not come fully into being until Pilkington and Bothwell were both involved ahead of 2018’s debut album.

By turns emphatic and vulnerable, subtle and direct, joyous and furious, ‘DISCOMBOBULATED’ is as strange, complex and moving a record as we have come to expect from Hen Ogledd.