Hardly content to rest on our laurels at this late stage of 2023, Merge Records is happy to announce the signing of post-punk firebrands M(h)aol—namely, Constance Keane, Jamie Hyland, Zoë Greenway, and Sean Nolan. We’re celebrating the news by becoming the North American home of their 2023 full-length debut, Attachment Styles, which arrives on November 17! Listen to Attachment Styles now wherever you stream music, and pre-order it on CD, LP, and clear with red swirl Peak Vinyl in the Merge store.

The Merge Records reissue of Attachment Styles features the previously unreleased “Jack,” which is both a staple of their mesmerizing live set and the first song M(h)aol wrote together as a band. 

“We wrote ‘Jack’ in a tiny room in a block of artist studios that definitely probably weren’t meant for music-making, so we’d have to go in at night time when everyone else was finished working,” Keane explains. “Having the first song you ever wrote being part of your live set every show, even eight years on, feels like quite a rare thing, so we’re really excited that ‘Jack’ is finally getting the release it deserves.”

Attachment Styles is an album about social connection, queerness, and healing, taking the listener on a journey through various stages of self-acceptance and community-building. The album was hailed by NPR, Stereogum, The Guardian, and others, hitting just before M(h)aol captivated American audiences at a number of SXSW showcases. One of those showcases was headlined by Superchunk, which set the stage for their signing to Merge Records.

“The fact that we can say we got signed from a show at SXSW makes me feel like we’re in a movie that I would have been obsessed with when I was 16,” Keane says.

If M(h)aol’s story is like a movie, then we’re just at the beginning. Along with the Attachment Styles reissue, the band is closing out 2023 with a number of festival appearances including a Pitchfork Music Festival London date with Sleater-Kinney and U.S. Girls. Keep up with M(h)aol on Instagram and Twitter/X!

M(h)aol on tour:
Oct 24 Belfast, NI – Mandela Hall
Oct 25 Dublin, IE – Vicar Street
Nov 10 London, UK – The Roundhouse (Pitchfork Music Festival London)
Dec 22 Gallen, CH – Palace St. Gallen
Jan 05 Bognor Regis, UK – Rockaway Music Festival

What critics are already saying about M(h)aol:

“[Attachment Styles is] a series of fearless moments that centre on intersectional feminism and reclamation of power, underpinned by a soundtrack of clattering drums and jagged, dissonant guitars.” —The Guardian

“Like the best protest music, Attachment Styles champions a positivity sorely needed when confronting the darkest parts of human nature.” —POST-TRASH

“Attachment Styles rips up the rules on gender, queer joy, desire, performing femininity, biphobia, sexual abuse and everything in between.” —Hot Press

“M(h)aol’s ‘Therapy’ proves the band need to be on your radar ASAP” —Alternative Press