Ontario punk trio Among Legends come out swinging on Lose My Grip. The band’s second full-length album, out July 10, 2026, moves fast, hits hard, and rarely lets up, pulling from the melodic urgency of Bad Religion, the road-tested punch of The Flatliners, and the hook-heavy energy that defined southern Ontario punk through the 2000s. Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Matt Gauthier at ARC Recording Studio and This Place Needs A Name, the record leans further into speed, tension, and sharper edges without losing the melodies that got the band here in the first place. That balance shows up immediately across the album’s twelve tracks.
Lead single “H/A/C/K” came out swinging with tight guitars, biting rhythms, and a heavier sense of frustration running underneath the hooks, while “Floating Here For Years” pulled things inward, trading pure momentum for something more restless and reflective. Together, they pointed toward a record that sounds bigger, louder, and more confident in itself than anything Among Legends have released before.
Formed in 2016, Among Legends built their foundation the long way. Self-released EPs, DIY spaces, weekenders, festivals, basement shows, and years spent hauling gear through clubs and bars across Canada and the United States. Their 2022 debut full-length Take Good Care, produced by Siegfried Meier, earned praise from BrooklynVegan, Exclaim!, PunkNews, New Noise Magazine, and Idobi Radio, with BrooklynVegan describing the record as “one ripper after another.” But even then, the band was already heading somewhere else. Recorded in 2019 and delayed until 2022, Take Good Care captured a lineup and sound that no longer fully reflected where Among Legends were going. In the years that followed, lineup changes stripped the band back to its core, with Mitchell Buchanan and Sara Fellin carrying things forward and rebuilding the group into the trio it is today. Rather than slow them down, the change sharpened the focus.
Lose My Grip feels less interested in fitting neatly into modern pop punk and more committed to the kind of melodic punk that sounds raw, immediate, and human. “Our last record came out four years ago, but it was recorded seven years ago. We’re not the same band anymore and I think that’s evident in the way this record sounds,” says vocalist/bassist Mitchell Buchanan. “Stability has been a hard feeling to find in recent years, and this record covers some of the different experiences that come with instability. It’s a lot of looking around and asking ‘how did we get here,’ whether that’s about the state of our countries, our communities, our relationships, or ourselves.” You can hear that especially on “Go On,” one of the album’s strongest tracks and emotional centerpieces. Built around a push-and-pull between vulnerability and avoidance, the song cuts through with lines like “I say I’ll come but we both know I won’t,” capturing the tension between wanting connection and keeping yourself at arm’s length from it. Across the album, relationships drift, routines calcify, and uncertainty hangs overhead, but the songs never stay still long enough to drown in it.
That’s what gives Lose My Grip its weight. Not the idea of struggle itself, but the sense of continuing anyway. The record sounds like a band that’s spent years figuring out exactly what kind of music they want to make, then finally trusting themselves enough to make it without apology. With Mitchell Buchanan on bass and vocals, Sara Fellin on drums and vocals, and Tyler Boles handling guitar duties across the record, Among Legends lock into something tight, aggressive, and undeniably melodic. Bennett Rouleau now rounds out the live lineup as the band prepares to take Lose My Grip back onto the road through 2026. Whether the band is charging through hook-heavy skate punk, pushing into grittier melodic hardcore territory, or locking into the restless energy of tracks like “Go On,” the record never loses its sense of momentum. It’s loud, road-tested, sharp around the edges, and built for packed rooms, long drives, and repeat listens.