Amigo the Devil has returned with a new single, “New Kind of Lonely,” marking his first official release since the album Yours Until The War Is Over issued in February 2024.
The track reflects on a series of personal hardships faced by the artist and frames them not as defeat, but as points of reckoning and renewal. Amigo the Devil has described the song as a companion piece for listeners navigating their own periods of upheaval and uncertainty.
“New Kind of Lonely” was recorded in a hotel conference room while the artist was on tour in Tasmania. According to Amigo the Devil, the song centers on the idea that an altered or derailed future does not necessarily signify failure, but instead offers an opportunity to rebuild with greater perspective.
The single had been release on December 19, 2025. Rather than issuing a conventional press statement, the artist chose to accompany the song with a personal message to listeners, reflecting on loss, creative process, and the role of music as a shared emotional language.
Amigo the Devil’s recent years have been marked by significant personal loss, including the destruction of his home and much of his life’s work. While those experiences inform the broader emotional landscape of the new song, he has emphasized that “New Kind of Lonely” is not tied to a single event, but instead to the broader human experience of starting over under difficult circumstances.
In his remarks, the artist also rejected romanticized notions of songwriting, describing his process as organic and unforced, and urging listeners to take songs for what they need them to be in the moment. He noted that creative works ultimately belong as much to their audience as to their creator.
The song’s title phrase, he explained, was inspired in part by a brief conversation with a fellow traveler in a Tasmanian airport terminal, who offered a line that reshaped his outlook: “you’re not starting from zero. You’re starting from experience.” The sentiment, he said, has since become a guiding principle in how he views loss, hardship, and renewal.
Below is Amigo the Devil’s full statement about the track, released in lieu of a traditional press announcement:
A Message from Amigo The Devil about the track:
“Recorded in a hotel conference room while on tour in Tasmania, “New Kind of Lonely” gives birth to a reality where a re-routed future doesn’t have to mean failure after all. Our new song comes out on December 19th, 2025 and instead of a typical press release, I’m just going to rant for a bit as if we were friends catching up, because we kind of are.
Although still navigating the tragic loss of my home, my life…the cruelty of watching a lifetime of collecting and work burn itself to rubble, this song isn’t about that. It isn’t singular or momentary. When people ask for an explanation of what a song means or the process it was written through I often feel stuck. Do I make up this otherworldly, elaborate story of the greater gods and underworld energies fighting their way into my brain to create these 3 minutes in time? Were the lyrics hand delivered by a dying breed of beetle on an old world scroll? Do I force myself to feel so self aggrandized that it was all the spark of a genius and the brutal labor of wading in torment. Oh the fucking burden I carry blah blah blah. No…I just wrote it. That’s it. It happened to be the words that came to mind when I heard the melody in my head. That’s as simple as it usually is and hopefully as beautifully natural as it will ever be. The idea of glamorizing song writing into some hard labor or philosophic masterpiece, in my opinion, just takes away from the beauty of what songs are. They just are. Just like I am, and you are…and things are. Then they go, often without notice.
That’s why it’s so important for me that people take songs for what they need them to be in that moment. Not everyone will have the same kind of lonely and expressing what mine was in the moment I wrote this song takes it away from everyone else’s purpose with it. These songs aren’t mine. The same way anyone else doing any other craft or trade will know. You show up, you do the work and then you leave it behind for others to enjoy. No one asks an electrician what inspired him to wire a house the way he did (I’m sure someone does but shut the fuck up, you get it, thank you). Whether you find yourself alone in a new space for the first time without your person by you.
Whether you’re learning a new reality after leaving behind an addiction or circumstance…maybe said fuck this career and are starting over or you simply decided you don’t want to be who you have been and the terror crawls through your skin every time you reach out for comfort just to find nothing on the other end, the only place we find hope is in the perspective. Yes, it’s terrifying and yes it’s new. Whether it falls within the bounds of your planned life or is completely unfamiliar it is a chance to rebuild with all the knowledge you wish you had the first go around.
Out on the Australian tour a gentleman who came to multiple shows was flying home the same time we were so we had a small chat. This is days after recording this song with Talley. Of all the wonderful and brilliant things he said through our short chat in a tiny Tasmanian airport terminal, one sentiment stood out the most. Although specific in that moment to the fire and hope for reconstruction, I’ve applied it to everything else that would otherwise feel like failure or hardship in my life. He said “…don’t forget, you’re not starting from zero. You’re starting from experience.”
That’s the new kind of lonely that I’m hoping will bring a better tomorrow.I hope you enjoy it and take whatever you need from it, if anything.If not, I hope the days keep steady and the path is sturdy for you. Don’t wait to enjoy anything in your life. You never know when the universe will take it back.I’m grateful to you all.”
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