Listen to “Wayside” HERE

Pale, Through the Window Headline Tour Also Announced Today –
Dates Include Ryman Auditorium, Bowery Ballroom, Troubadour + more

“Kelly’s spiritual transformation forms the backbone of Pale, Through the Window.” – Rolling Stone, read more HERE

Ruston Kelly has announced a new album Pale, Through the Window, due out September 12 on Rounder Records. The album captures a season of profound personal transformation for the Nashville-based singer-songwriter—born of emotional healing and the unexpected bloom of new love. Kelly has solidified himself as one of modern music’s most astute observers of the human heart and spirit, mining his past addiction, grief, and personal reckoning into transcendent moments delivered with poetic intensity. On this new 13-track album, Kelly forges a new creative path, capturing his newfound clarity and joy, without sacrificing the unflinching vulnerability he’s renowned for.

“This album feels like a return to the truest, purest, most complete version of who I am as an artist and a human being,” says Kelly. “I wanted to write about joy in a way that was still honest and complicated, because that’s what real joy is—it carries everything that came before it.”

Pale, Through the Window is Kelly’s most emotionally expansive and spiritually grounded album to-date. Created after an artistic and existential low point, the album delivers a portrait of hard-won hope, testaments about renewal and love, grace, healing and much more. Layered with shimmering synths, gritty pedal steel, emo-tinged guitars, Kelly created a sonic landscape that mirrors the album’s emotional depth.

Produced by longtime collaborator Jarrad K (Betty Who, Tommy Prine, Lucie Silvas) and recorded live at his Chateau Noir studio, Pale, Through the Window is also Kelly’s first album made alongside his touring band. The result is an intimate, instinctive sound that blends ambient textures, sweeping pedal steel (courtesy of his father, Tim “TK” Kelly), and Ruston’s signature pop-punk sensibility into something warm, immediate, and deeply human.

Pre-order / pre-save Pale, Through The Window here

Out today, Kelly shares the album’s second preview “Wayside,” a euphoric but unvarnished portrait of love against the backdrop of a world in flames.

Listen to “Wayside” here

“Wayside” followed the previously released “Half Past Three,” which exemplifies the album’s emotional complexity, presenting a pensive meditation on the frequent yet mystifying coexistence of happiness and overwhelming sorrow.

Listen to “Half Past Three” here

Alongside this album announcement, Kelly also announces his 2025 – 2026 Pale, Through the Window Headline Tour, which include stops at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, a return to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, LA’s Troubadour and more. Presales launch June 10, followed by the public on-sale on June 13. Complete routing below + visit rustonkelly.com for more information.

PALE, THROUGH THE WINDOW TRACK LIST:

1. Pale, Through the Window (Ruston Kelly)

2. Give Up the Ghost (Kelly)

3. Wayside (Kelly)

4. Half Past Three (Kelly)

5. Me and You (Kelly)

6. Twisted Root (Kelly)

7. Still (Kelly, Emily Weisband, Peter Raffoul)

8. Waiting to Love You (Kelly, Jarrad K, Jon Green)

9. I See You (Kelly)

10. Pickleball  (Kelly, Jarrad K)

11. House in the Country (Kelly)

12. Great Wide Open (Kelly)

13. All in (Kelly)

PALE, THROUGH THE WINDOW TOUR DATES: 

Oct 2 – Fine Line – Minneapolis, MN *

Oct 3 – House of Blues – Chicago, IL *

Oct 4 – The Vogue Theatre – Indianapolis, IN *

Oct 6 – The Blind Pig – Ann Arbor, MI *

Oct 7 – Horseshoe Tavern – Toronto, ON *

Oct 15 – The Atlantis – Washington DC *

Oct 17 – World Café Live – Philadelphia, PA *

Oct 18 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY *

Oct 19 – The Sinclair – Boston, MA *

Oct 21 – The Underground – Charlotte, NC *

Oct 23 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, SC *

Oct 24 – The Riviera Theater – Charleston, SC *

Jan 15 – The Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC ^

Jan 16 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA ^

Jan 17 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN ^

Jan 19 – Old Rock House – St Louis, MO ^

Jan 20 – recordBar – Kansas City, MO ^

Jan 22 – The Heights Theater – Houston, TX ^

Jan 23 – Emo’s – Austin, TX ^

Jan 24 – The Echo Lounge – Dallas, TX ^

Jan 26 – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO ^

Jan 28 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT ^

Jan 30 – Neumos – Seattle, WA ^

Jan 31 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR ^

Feb 2 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA ^

Feb 6 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA ^

Feb 7 – Belly Up – Solana Beach, CA ^

Feb 8 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ ^

 

With special guests:

*Sam MacPherson

^verygently