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Marigold Static is a four-piece indie band from Lincoln, Nebraska, making warm, synth-lit songs about weather, night buses and the people you wait out the rain with. Their second album, Weather for Two, is out on November 13, 2026 on Lantern House Records.

Marigold Static is Isla Carrick, Reuben Oyelaran, Fenna de Wit and Callum Shiach, a four-piece from Lincoln, Nebraska, who met on a night bus in 2017 and started rehearsing above a laundromat on South 11th Street.

Their debut album Lowland Signal (2024) was shortlisted for Great Plains Independent Album of the Year and took them across the US, Canada and Europe. The follow-up, Weather for Two, was written through one long Lincoln winter and recorded live to tape in nine days with producer Ailsa Braid. It is out on November 13, 2026 on Lantern House Records, led by the single “Glasshouse”, and followed by a 21-date tour across two continents.

Marigold Static started in the winter of 2017, when Isla Carrick and Reuben Oyelaran ended up on the same night bus home from a contra dance and spent the ride arguing about whether synthesizers count as folk instruments. Drummer Callum Shiach answered a handwritten note in a South Street record store; bassist Fenna de Wit, who had moved from Utrecht to study sound engineering, joined after a single rehearsal in the room above a South 11th Street laundromat.

The debut single “Overpass” came out in 2019 as 300 lathe-cut 7-inches and sold out at its launch show. The Sodium Light EP was finished in lockdown with every part recorded in a different apartment, and Night Bus Hymns (2022) brought a first national radio session. Signed to Lantern House Records on the strength of “Paper Moons”, the band released their debut album Lowland Signal in 2024. It was shortlisted for Great Plains Independent Album of the Year and toured across 74 shows in the US, Canada and Europe.

The second album, Weather for Two, was written through one long, snowed-in Lincoln winter and recorded live to tape in nine days at Antelope Hall with producer Ailsa Braid. It is the band’s warmest and biggest-sounding record yet: bigger synths, closer vocals, strings arranged by Fenna on two songs and, on “Second Summer”, Callum’s first lead vocal. It is out on November 13, 2026, led by the single “Glasshouse”, with a 21-date tour that opens with two hometown nights at the Haymarket Ballroom.