Coin-O-Matic
Deer Tick
Coin-O-Matic is the ninth studio album by Providence, Rhode Island's Deer Tick, released on June 5, 2026 via ATO Records. The album marks a significant milestone as the band's first self-produced record in their two-decade-plus career, recorded at their own home studio in Providence — a departure from previous collaborations with producers like Dave Fridmann. Its title refers to the real cigarette-vending-machine company on Atwells Avenue in Providence that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca and the New England Mafia during their heyday, and the record uses that local history as a launching point for a broader exploration of working-class Rhode Island life, Irish-Catholic identity, grief, desperation, and resilience. As Cincy Groove describes it, the album arrives as "a complicated love letter to a way of life slowly slipping from the collective memory."
Across its eleven tracks and roughly forty-five minutes, Coin-O-Matic draws on a wide stylistic range while remaining rooted in rock and Americana. The record opens with "Dog Years," which builds from a spare acoustic strum into a full arrangement of electric guitars, horns, and drums, and is followed by the jangly lead single "Mary Singletary," a tale of interfaith teenage lust steeped in Catholic guilt. Other standouts include the funk-and-falsetto-inflected "Sweetest Things," the Springsteen-echoing "Everything Born," and "ACI," which directly references the Adult Correctional Institutions prison just outside Providence. The album closes with the elegiac six-minute "Candy Cigarettes," a wistful meditation on friendship and survival that Americana UK calls "a striking six-minute story song about friendship, love, and making things work despite obstacles." New Noise Magazine praised the record for never romanticizing its characters' struggles, instead approaching them with empathy and finding "moments of grace amid disappointment," with Maximum Volume Music rating it 9/10 and calling it one of the best albums of 2026 so far.
Coin-O-Matic
Deer Tick
Coin-O-Matic is the ninth studio album by Providence, Rhode Island's Deer Tick, released on June 5, 2026 via ATO Records. The album marks a significant milestone as the band's first self-produced record in their two-decade-plus career, recorded at their own home studio in Providence — a departure from previous collaborations with producers like Dave Fridmann. Its title refers to the real cigarette-vending-machine company on Atwells Avenue in Providence that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca and the New England Mafia during their heyday, and the record uses that local history as a launching point for a broader exploration of working-class Rhode Island life, Irish-Catholic identity, grief, desperation, and resilience. As Cincy Groove describes it, the album arrives as "a complicated love letter to a way of life slowly slipping from the collective memory."
Across its eleven tracks and roughly forty-five minutes, Coin-O-Matic draws on a wide stylistic range while remaining rooted in rock and Americana. The record opens with "Dog Years," which builds from a spare acoustic strum into a full arrangement of electric guitars, horns, and drums, and is followed by the jangly lead single "Mary Singletary," a tale of interfaith teenage lust steeped in Catholic guilt. Other standouts include the funk-and-falsetto-inflected "Sweetest Things," the Springsteen-echoing "Everything Born," and "ACI," which directly references the Adult Correctional Institutions prison just outside Providence. The album closes with the elegiac six-minute "Candy Cigarettes," a wistful meditation on friendship and survival that Americana UK calls "a striking six-minute story song about friendship, love, and making things work despite obstacles." New Noise Magazine praised the record for never romanticizing its characters' struggles, instead approaching them with empathy and finding "moments of grace amid disappointment," with Maximum Volume Music rating it 9/10 and calling it one of the best albums of 2026 so far.