Angus & Julia Stone release new single ‘Celestial Bodies’ ahead of forthcoming album Karaoke Bar

As anticipation builds for their forthcoming album Karaoke Bar, Angus & Julia Stone share ‘Celestial Bodies’, the third single from their seventh studio album, arriving September 4 via Virgin Music.

Following the release of ‘Karaoke Bar’ and ‘Monroe’, ‘Celestial Bodies’ ventures into more expansive territory, pairing hypnotic rhythms with dreamlike lyricism as Angus & Julia Stone contemplate life’s unknowable questions. Built around a pulsing groove and their unmistakable vocal interplay, the track explores the search for meaning amid the beauty and chaos of existence.

‘Celestial Bodies’ also traces one of the longest creative journeys of any song on Karaoke Bar. It first took shape on the Greek island of Hydra, during an evening when Saharan sands drifted across the Mediterranean and turned the sky a striking shade of red. From there, the song evolved at the legendary Miraval Studios in the south of France before finally finding its home back in Australia at Angus’s Sugarcane Mountain Studio in the hinterland of New South Wales. There, alongside close collaborators, the duo completed a song driven by an underlying pulse beneath lyrical reflections on “what the hell this life is all about.”

Angus speaks of the song, “lyrically it’s an amalgamation, a bit of melting pot for everything we’re going through in life as a collective. Celestial Bodies itself, the words, that’s what we are in essence, we’re all stardust. We’re all atoms bouncing around trying to figure who we belong with, the meaning of it all.”

Written and recorded across Greece, France and Australia, Karaoke Bar captures a collection of songs shaped by movement, instinct and place. Each environment left its own imprint on the record, resulting in an album that feels both deeply personal and quietly expansive – balancing moments of intimacy with broader reflections on connection, memory and the passage of time.

Since emerging with A Book Like This in 2007, Angus & Julia Stone have established themselves as one of Australia’s most internationally beloved musical exports. Their 2010 breakthrough Down the Way debuted at number one in Australia and introduced the timeless ‘Big Jet Plane’, while subsequent releases – including collaborations with Rick Rubin and their ARIA Award-winning soundtrack work on Life Is Strange – have continued to showcase their evolving artistry and enduring creative partnership.

Their most recent album Cape Forestier (2024) marked a return to recording on home soil, before taking the duo across Europe, the UK and North America on a sold-out world tour that included London’s Royal Albert Hall, Paris’ L’Olympia and New York’s Town Hall.

With ‘Celestial Bodies’, Angus & Julia Stone continue to reveal the emotional and sonic landscape of Karaoke Bar – an album that embraces life’s unanswered questions as much as its moments of quiet certainty. Karaoke Bar arrives September 4.