Of Monsters and Men Confirm 1st New Album In 6 Years & 2025 Tour Dates

Of Monsters and Men will release their first full-length album in six years, All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade, on October 17. The Icelandic band detailed a North American fall tour in support of the forthcoming record, which features the newly shared single, “Ordinary Creature.”

The long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s Fever Dream is described in press materials as a “deeply introspective and richly textured record [that] explores the paradox at the heart of the human experience, the inseparable dance of joy and sorrow, love and pain.” Co-singer and lyricist Nanna Hilmarsdóttir took inspiration from the band’s personal lives, family, community and descendents. She described their shared history as part of the “Mouse Parade,” a collective narrative that forms the LP’s emotional landscape.

The self-produced “Ordinary Creature” was written and recorded in the band’s home country of Iceland. Of Monsters and Men tapped Erlendur Sveinsson to direct the accompanying video, which was filmed on a summer night and early morning in Iceland as the group drove through the small coastal town of Selvogur.

“Ordinary Creature is about the feeling of yearning for that someone that brings you comfort. It’s about when you start feeling better after a period of not feeling so great. That moment when you start coming back to yourself again and remembering what it’s like to be an ordinary creature,” the band said regarding their new single.

Watch Of Monsters and Men’s “Ordinary Creature” video below:

Of Monsters and Men will start their North American tour on October 28 with a concert at Toronto’s History. The excursion also includes stops in Boston, Brooklyn, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Paul (Minnesota), Nashville, Atlanta, Austin, Mexico City, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Denver and Los Angeles before concluding on November 26 in Oakland. Icelandic singer-songwriter Árný Margrét supports on all dates.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 15, after an Artist Presale begins on Monday, August 11.