What's In Between Radio Free Alice

• 1 Crying With You 04:00
• 2 Undressed 03:56
• 3 Rule 31 04:14
• 4 What's In Between 04:09
• 5 Kick in the Shins 03:00
• 6 Big Ideas (feat. Rachel Brown) 04:14
• 7 Lunch Money 03:38
• 8 Bottleshops 02:03
• 9 Four Leaf Clover 02:58
• 10 The Intersection 03:42
• 11 Waiting 03:45
• Total Runtime 39:39

Info for What's In Between

What's In Between' is the debut album from Radio Free Alice, one of 2026's most exciting breakout bands. Recorded across three continents with producers Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), Ewan Pearson (The Rapture, M83) and Finn Billingham, the Melbourne-based indie rock band's debut album blends infectious melodies, sharp songwriting, clever humour and global ambition.

Melbourne post-punks Radio Free Alice have already ascended to transatlantic cult status with only a few tracks available for streaming. And now, their debut album, What's In Between, will arrive on October 30 via Atlantic Records. This announcement caps a breakout summer that included Austin City Limits, Governors Ball, several sold-out New York shows, support dates with Geese in Australia, and six sold-out London headliners.

‘What’s In Between’ has been a long time coming. Radio Free Alice have worked across continents with producer Peter Katis, whose CV includes Interpol, The National and Death Cab for Cutie, while Ewan Pearson and Finn Billingham also contribute production to the record. After living with the songs for so long, the band are understandably relieved to finally have a release date attached to them.

The album announcement follows a run of singles that has steadily expanded their reach. July brought the wired ‘Kick in the Shins’, with Michael Phillips’ saxophone cutting through Learmonth’s rapid-fire storytelling, while ‘Lunch Money’ marked their debut release for Atlantic Records earlier in the summer.

Radio Free Alice

Radio Free Alice
Noah Learmonth is the sort of frontman that classic bands are built around. Talk to the wryly amusing Radio Free Alice vocalist, and you’ll find a leader who knows exactly what he wants his band to be: hook-laden yet self-aware; full of nuance, humor and a strange kind of joy; a group for those who often find themselves on the margins of the party, but a unit whose dreams are also ambitiously, unashamedly massive and fully on display with their debut record, What’s In Between (October 30 via Atlantic Records).

Learmonth and guitarist Jules Paradiso started the group at school in Sydney before moving at 18, to Melbourne to fully pursue music. With their previous bandmates staying behind, they soon found bassist Michael Phillips and drummer Lochie Dowd at Melbourne University.

RFA have quickly transcended the often hard to break out of Australian music scene and become a band welcomed onto stages around the world. In 2025, they booked one London headline show that, due to insane demand, ended up expanding to six sold-out shows in the span of a singular month. Later that year, they played their first US run, which included three sold-out NYC shows. They’ve spent festival season touring around the world’s biggest stages, from Governor’s Ball to Reading and Leeds. Back home in Australia, they supported Geese on their first trip down under, and warmed the stage for The Killers on their last arena run.

What’s In Between is a three continent record made with Ewan Pearson (Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand) over a couple weeks north of Sydney; songs were re-worked and re-visited with producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National) at his studio in Connecticut; while a week of downtime in north-west London earlier this year spawned the final touches on the album with UK producer Finn Billingham working out of Flood and Alan Moulder’s studio.

A card-carrying lover of coming-of-age narratives, with What’s In Between, Learmonth and his band have written the soundtrack to their own: a debut destined to play on the stereos of a generation of fans as they carve out their singular stories, and an album that cements Radio Free Alice’s place as one of 2026’s most significant breakout bands.

This album contains no booklet.