Austin’s own Jonathan Terrell returns this fall with DOVE, his fifth and most dynamic studio album yet, out September 26, 2025, on all platforms. A lenticular 3D vinyl edition, designed by the creative collective Preacher Austin, will follow.
Carved from a year of relentless hustling — from late-night DJ sets to commercial photography gigs — DOVE emerges as the record of Terrell’s dreams: eight songs designed to “translate the gaps in our conversation and take you on a ride into the unknown.” The album inhabits its own strange and intoxicating world of western goth psychedelia, festival punk swagger, and midnight country-club sleaze, all tied together with Terrell’s raw, fearless poetry.
Terrell self-produced four tracks — “Undiscovered Country,” “10 on 6,” “Upside,” and “Live in Sin” — while also collaborating with heavyweights like Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas (“Midnight Machine”), Christian Eigner of Depeche Mode (“Mona & Dunes”), and Silverada, who backed him on “Born on a Saturday Night.”
The title itself came to Terrell in a dream:
“In my dream I was in a record store and I pulled a record from the shelf with a big ole dove on the cover. I asked the clerk at the counter whose record that was. He looked up from his magazine and said, ‘That’s your record. Time to fly.’”
A Texas Legacy, Reimagined
By now a Texas legacy, Jonathan Terrell has earned his reputation through explosive live shows and cosmic country storytelling that pull from Townes Van Zandt as much as Springsteen and David Lynch. His acclaimed discography, beginning with Westward, has been praised by Rolling Stone, Forbes, RS Country, and American Songwriter. He has toured internationally, played Red Rocks and Stagecoach, and even logged a 55-show run performing with Grammy-nominated band Midland.
With DOVE, Terrell once again reinvents himself, burning down familiar country tropes to build a new sound with friends from Black Pumas, Depeche Mode, Silverada, and Midland.
What’s Next
To celebrate the release, Terrell will join Hayes Carll for an East Coast tour this fall and host a gallery exhibition of his photography in Austin, TX.
The Austin Chronicle notes Terrell’s “rough charisma that’s simultaneously brushfire country and streetwise punk,” while Holler calls him an artist “escaping classification” and finally being caught up to by the rest of the world.
DOVE is out September 26.
