On February 26, 2027, Merge Records will reissue Tanner York’s debut album, Welcome to the Shower. Emerging from the power pop underground in 2025, Welcome to the Shower is sweet and psyched out, full of Big Star bravado and Brian Wilson’s bittersweet bliss. The Merge reissue, arriving on CD and limited-edition opaque “Baby Bloo” Peak Vinyl, features the previously unreleased track “Dumbest Person Alive.”

Made in a short frenzy while studying music tech at UNC Asheville, Welcome to the Shower was, according to York, the product of his getting “pretty obsessed with recording on 8-track cassette recorders, along with the idea of the ‘perfect pop song.’” 

Tanner York on Welcome to the Shower:

I don’t know if I achieved that anywhere on here, but this crop of bite-sized songs has remained very near and dear to my heart. Most of the music I was listening to at the time was home-recorded in a very obvious and proud way. I loved the idea of basking in the limitations, and I became infatuated with small-sounding music.