Chalk Tooth have been busy. The trio of Karolina Wallace (vocals and guitar), Adam Wallace (guitar), and Jason Miller (bass, synths, drums, manufacturing, engineering) spent a lot of 2025 performing throughout Los Angeles and New York. Now, they’re making ready a brand new album, their first, set for early 2026. One of many songs that’s been a setlist staple (right here’s a dwell clip from 2024) is “Struck,” so Chalk Tooth are lastly releasing it as their debut single right now (January 23).
The near-six-minute observe falls proper in step with how the band describes themselves: “Shoegaze-tinged, motorik darkish wave. Black glass synths, washed in noise-rock guitar, with Polish vocals, propelled by relentless drum machine pulses.” The band goals to “create a flickering hypnotic dance ceremony, a dwell expertise that cleanses your bone marrow with quantity and frequency.” They are saying the track is “a brooding minimal wave dance ground ballad of obsessive love,” and so they’re proper about that, too, because the observe is an entrancing experience with sufficient aesthetic selection and twists to take care of your consideration and preserve you transferring.
The track arrives alongside a video by filmmaker Thomas Revington, a moody, black-and-white visible shot at an “airplane-hangar-turned-wrestling-gym.”
As for the album, the title and launch date are nonetheless TBA. The band wrote, recorded, and combined the DIY venture at their North Hollywood rehearsal house.
Band members Karolina and Adam Wallace are a married couple who’ve additionally carried out and launched music because the duo Radiant Reveries. In a 2022 interviewKarolina mentioned her musical origins:
“I used to be born in Poland (then the communist Polish Individuals’s Republic) and raised in Hamburg, Germany. From an early age, I had an affinity for entertaining, singing, dancing, writing, and performing to amuse my household. At 10 years outdated, I started modeling for clothes catalogs. At 11, I used to be signed to Elite Mannequin Administration, and on the age of 14, I used to be approached by a expertise supervisor who inspired me to take singing classes and document my first demos, protecting songs by Madonna and Paula Abdul.
I didn’t at all times need to pursue a profession in pop music, although. As an alternative, I selected to proceed modeling, working internationally from the age of 15. In 2007, I signed my first lease in New York Metropolis and started performing coaching.
My want to do extra saved fueling me. I at all times needed to play devices, particularly the guitar. Just a few years after transferring to New York, I obtained my want after discovering a gorgeous Guild acoustic on sale on the Decrease East Facet’s Rivington Guitars. From there, having already been within the observe of writing poetry, songs naturally emerged.”
Miller, in the meantime, can be established exterior of the trio, performing with the bands Lumerians and Moist Satin.
Watch the “Struck” video above and take a look at the group’s upcoming tour dates beneath.
Chalk Tooth’s 2026 Tour Dates
02/13 — Los Angeles, CA @ Non Plus Extremely
03/22 — Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon Café Live performance