The Milk Carton Kids - Lost Cause Lover Fool

• Available April 24th, 2026.
• Ship orders including this title will be held back.

On their seventh studio album, Lost Cause Lover Fool, The Milk Carton Kids deliver 9 songs that, more than ever, invite listeners to lean in close and hover in the small moments the album magnifies.

With rootsy arrangements, Lost Cause Lover Fool expands on the duo’s signature minimalist sound their fans love while also, somehow, making it even smaller. Lost Cause Lover Fool begins with the lonesome pluck and strum of the banjo on “Blue Water”. Often employed either for lightning-speed or rhythm, here the banjo is handled carefully, with reticence, so that it feels more like light cast across a stretch of grass than a whole bluegrass instrument. Lyrically, this album-opener zooms in on a snapshot of a man walking along a riverside, remembering the child that used to lay on his chest who has now grown to share his worried mind. It’s a moment so small it might easily have been dismissed, except that it holds an emotion as universal as it is fleeting.

Lost Cause Lover Fool magnifies many such small moments, turns them into mesmerising worlds, and reminds us — pleads with us — to pay attention to them as they go by.

This vinyl edition produced by Far Cry Records in 2026.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Blue Water
2. My Place Among the Stones
3. A Friend Like You
4. I'll Go Home From Here
5. Lost Cause Lover Fool
6. Blinded and Smiling
7. Sad Song
8. Ribbon
9. Young Love