LISTEN: Imaginary People Share ‘Five Days’

New album, Alibi, out Sept. 12

August 11, 2025August 14, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Alibi, Bryan Ferry, Dylan Von Wagner, Imaginary People, Interpol, Longwave, New York City

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In 2021, Rock & Roll Globe premiered the powerful anti-gun song “It’s Simple” from New York City’s Imaginary People off their forthcoming third album called Alibi.

Four years later, Alibi is finally coming out on Sept. 12, and just in time for a rock album that rings the alarm of the cold civil war going on between MAGA and everyone not MAGA here in the United States in the wake of a second Trump term.

“I just think we’re in an ultimate fight right now,” explains frontman Dylan Von Wagner. “Our culture is just falling apart and the ins and outs of our cultural differences are splitting — it feels like what one person says is right and what the other person says is wrong and that’s it. The whole time we were doing the record, it just felt like normalcy was falling apart. The things you’d think would normally be right and wrong — the normal yesses and nos — aren’t happening anymore, and that was very disturbing to me.”

That dystopic feeling bristles through Alibi’s 11 songs. Recorded by Phil Weinrobe (Nick Murphy, Pussy Riot, Stolen Jars) at Rivington 66 in the band’s home of New York City, as well as upstate at Spillway Sound in the Catskills, and mixed by Eli Crews at Figure 8 in Brooklyn, this is an album that harks back to the sound of early ‘00s NYC when bands like Interpol and Longwave were riding a dark wave of millennial WLIR rock to college radio glory.

The new Imaginary People LP, Alibi, will be available on Sept. 12. (Image: Imaginary People)

Rock & Roll Globe is proud to once again premiere the latest single from Alibi, the shimmering “Five Days,” where Von Wagner channels his inner Bryan Ferry as the band — made up of Mark Roth (guitar), Justin Repasky (keys), Kolby Wade (drums), Bryan Percivall (bass/synth), and with additional synth work by Grant Zubritsky — walks the line separating surf rock and New Romanticism.

“I’d like to comment on being in a band,” asserts the singer. “Typically I bring in a sketch of a song and we’ll spend months/hours fucking around in the dark until you find its core. ‘Five Days’ in particular is a testament to the band dynamic and once we found the beat and cadence the rest of the arrangement became concrete. A band that’s been writing for years equals an understanding of its vital organs and function. You get a system that really has no explanation, just Jedi songcraft.”

Give “Five Days” a spin below and keep up with Imaginary People on IG.