Racing Mount Pleasant Share New Single Great Destroyer
Chicago-based septet Racing Mount Pleasant released the new single "Great Destroyer" on November 11, 2026. The official listen link is live at ffm.to/greatdestroyer. The notice was sent by Orienteer, the band's publicists, and does not list an embargo.
The announcement describes the Midwestern group as a band of twenty-somethings, and places the single at the end of a long stretch of live dates. Racing Mount Pleasant spent Summer 2026 on a headline U.S. tour, then played a run of shows in Asia, including Chengdu, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo. The announcement calls those Asia dates some of the biggest solo-show crowds of the band's career so far. After joining Geese on tour in fall 2025, the group played two sold-out debut shows of its own to close that year. It has also announced a Primavera Sound date in Barcelona in 2027. No festival set time or further 2027 routing is listed in the announcement.
Racing Mount Pleasant began as a group of musician friends in Ann Arbor. They released an album under the name Kingfisher in 2022, then reintroduced themselves as Racing Mount Pleasant with a self-titled album in 2025. The new single arrives with the band two albums in, and the announcement says more new music is planned for 2027. It describes the track as opening with soft guitar before expanding into a larger arrangement, and points to the seven voices and instrumental swells that, it says, only a band of this size can produce. The notice does not name additional songs or a new album title.