Cadence Weapon Details Forager, New Album out April 24, 2026
Already a Most Anticipated Album of 2026, Cadence Weapon officially details his forthcoming album, Forager, out April 24, 2026. Today’s announcement comes with new song “Alpenflage,” an ode to a specific camouflage pattern and a fitting inspiration for an artist/author/curator who has fashioned himself as a swiss army knife of creativity.
Sharp witted and sharply dressed, on “Alpenflage,” Cadence Weapon lays lyrical patterns over producer Junia-T’s jazz-influenced bass and beats. With touchstones from the Alchemist to A Book of Human Language, on “Alpenflage” and Forager as a whole Cadence Weapon explores all things vintage in sound and style.
“True vintage is made from natural materials and was made with a higher standard of craftsmanship,” says Cadence Weapon. “It was built to last. This made me think of the classic hip-hop that I grew up listening to.”
Forager finds Cadence Weapon as archivist and lyricist, curator and collector. Forager is the work of keen eyes and ears, a restless curiosity for depth of knowledge and appreciation for detail. Replete with fashion history and trivia, from “Raghouse” to “501XX” to “Fall 2012 Couture,” and shaped by the rap greats of his formative years, Forager wears its influences on its sleeve.
Cadence Weapon recently debuted the new songs at CBC’s Road to the JUNOS, for the first time with a full live band. The presentation reflects the origin of Forager, Cadence Weapon’s first album with completely live instrumentation. The Forager band includes Scott McCannell (bass), Daniel Espina (guitar), Mark Anthony King Edward James (keys), Adrian Irvine (violin), The Chmst (trumpet), Joseph Callender (flute/saxophone) and Chino DeVilla (drums).
To celebrate the album’s release in April, Cadence Weapon also announces a series of “Forager Markets” which will bring his music and thrifting worlds together in free events that will include vintage pop-ups, exclusive vinyl and more. With the award-winning author’s release of his second book, Ways of Listening, set for May 26, 2026, the reach and scope of Cadence Weapon’s artistic milieu continues to expand.
Forager will be released April 24, 2056.
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Forager Track List:
1. Honus
2. Babymoon
3. Raghouse
4. 501XX
5. Alpenflage
6. Step Out
7. Yves Klein Blue
8. Toronto Zoo
9. Line Dry
10. Barabbas
11. Niagara Region
12. Fall 2012 Couture
FORAGER MARKETS
4/25 Hamilton, ON - Cotton Factory with HVC Markets
4/26 Toronto, ON - Standard Time
5/2 Montreal, QC - Essai Futile
5/9 Edmonton, AB - Orange Hall (Strathcona Lodge)
ABOUT CADENCE WEAPON
A Renaissance man for the Digital Age, Cadence Weapon aka Rollie Pemberton is rapper/producer/author with a list of accomplishments and credits so long - from receiving industry accolades for his music to receiving awards for critiquing this same industry in his writing - you might wonder what more is there for him to do. Even so, Fall 2025 finds the Polaris Music Prize winner with a new frame of mind and yet more on the go. From the bouncy new single “Step Out,” which sees Cadence Weapon in the company of Toronto hiphop lions Junia-T and DijahSB, to prepping his third book, an essay collection titled Ways of Listening, and running back his debut album, Breaking Kayfabe, with a twentieth anniversary tour, Cadence Weapon continues his impressive roll.
At once encyclopedically historical and presciently future-minded, Cadence Weapon is known first and foremost for his lyricism: charged commentary and cautionary tales of artificiality, tech-culture, classicism, gentrification, exploitation and more fit beside the self-aware chronicles of his own life and career, encapsulated in his most recent album, Rollercoaster. Cadence Weapon has made good on the critical acclaim of his early work and still remains at the avant-garde, pushing boundaries and buttons while his signature electronic/industrial sound, a “grimy clarion call,” (Pitchfork) rings on.
An award-winning columnist and contributor to urgent cultural conversations (CBC Commotion, Hazlitt, Mood Machine, docuseries Paid in Full and more), ‘music industry sage’ Cadence Weapon represents the best of the west as Edmonton’s former Poet Laureate. Now based in Hamilton, Pemberton is poised to surprise his listeners yet again in 2026 with the release of his new album, Forager, complete with live instrumentation and a thematic pivot.
