Kneecap aren’t easing off the accelerator any time soon, after a year that saw the Irish rap trio dominate headlines well beyond music, the group have confirmed that a brand new album is on the way in 2026.
The announcement came via social media, where Kneecap reflected on a bruising but defining 2025 and thanked fans for sticking with them through legal battles, political scrutiny, and an increasingly global spotlight.
“They tried to crush us and they failed,” the group wrote. “Thanks to all of you sound c*nts we’re stronger than ever.”
They followed it with a clear promise of what’s next.
“Big things to come in 2026 – including a brand new album. But nothing is more important than supporting each other and keep taking action for Palestine.”
The new record will serve as the follow up to 2024’s Fine Art, the album that pushed Kneecap from cult favourites into unavoidable territory, the release earned widespread acclaim and cemented the trio’s ability to fuse rave culture, Irish language politics, and raw confrontation without sanding down the edges.
Since then, Kneecap have stayed relentlessly active, they dropped the politically charged ‘The Recap’ featuring Mozey, the sprawling ‘Sayōnara’ alongside Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll, and ‘No Comment’, a drum ’n’ bass driven collaboration with Sub Focus that directly addressed Mo Chara’s legal case.
A limited 7” release of ‘H.O.O.D.’, featuring audio from Mo Chara’s controversial Coachella speech on Israel, was also made available exclusively to fans in New York.
That legal case became one of the most scrutinised moments of Kneecap’s career, in September, the terror charge against Mo Chara, real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, was thrown out after the Chief Magistrate ruled it “unlawful” and “null”.
The charge stemmed from a 2024 London performance and was dismissed due to a technical flaw in how it was brought forward.
Staying consistent
Kneecap have consistently denied supporting Hamas or Hezbollah, stating they do not incite or condone violence and describing the case as a ‘carnival of distraction’.
The situation isn’t fully closed either, the group revealed last week that the UK government plans to appeal the ruling, a move their legal team reportedly believes has ‘not an iota of logic’, the appeal is set to be heard on January 14th at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.
Amid the noise, Kneecap are doing what they’ve always done, turning pressure into fuel, and getting ready to release another record that won’t ask for permission.
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