GOLLYLAGGING Announce Debut Album REAL LIFE, Shares COMET Video

Boston-based DIY indie rock band GOLLYLAGGING has announced its debut record REAL LIFE, set for release via Disposable America. The announcement arrives alongside the release of the track and video for COMET. The band describes the ten-track album as an exploration of community and connection in the face of difficult circumstances.

Real Life is due out October 16 via Disposable America, available to pre-save now. Over ten carefully crafted tracks, the band leans into the power of community and each other to accept difficult circumstances, break patterns and grow. Alongside the announcement, the band shares 'Comet,' a catchy and thunderous coping with loss and change. Its matching video features a barbecue and games with fellow DIY Boston musicians. Later this month, they will headline Wildflower Festival in Milford, NH and later, support Victoryland and Drook in Somerville, MA.

On their forthcoming debut album, Gollylagging collaborate like never before, with each band member contributing on at least one track. On its hard-hitting subject matter, Jake Regulbuto (vocals, guitar) shares, ''Real Life' is about feeling dissatisfied with where you are in your life and trying to reach a place of acceptance with that. It confronts the feeling of being stuck in the same patterns with relationships and day to day problems while feeling powerless of changing.'

Through pain and hardship, the album, with its fuzzy guitars and dual vocalists, serves as a reminder of the power, importance and healing nature of friendship and community.

'Comet' arrives today as the latest taste of the record where the band channels anger about the collapse of a long-term friendship. Written by Jules Skiffington (vocals, guitar), the track balances catchy melodies and bright lyrics with dark subject matter. Skiffington shares, 'There's a fun reference to the opening of 'Blood Meridian' in there, how the main guy is born under an especially crazy meteor shower which is supposed to portend him being a crazy violent guy.'

Directed by Andrew Garas (drums) and Trent Reeder, the matching video is Garas' vision brought to life. Garas shares, 'As I kept listening to the track, I had the vision of getting together with our friends from the Boston DIY community and capturing the vibes organically. Trent from Osprey Corp has been coming to Boston gigs and filming them for years now and we knew we had to invite him along to have his unique visual style represented as we captured the day.'

Proud to present a portrait of their real lives and community, Garas adds, 'What transpired is something I'm very happy to have on film, a cookout with loads of our friends from the local scene that hopefully captures how I feel when I listen to 'Comet.''

In May, Gollylagging shared 'Jackknife' with a matching video, where they detail the ugly, shameful parts of a friendship painfully falling apart. Over cutting, layered electric guitar riffs and melancholic vocals, the four-piece sink into these emotional intricacies with honesty.

Gollylagging is a Boston-based quartet who has spent the last several years cutting their teeth across bars and venues in Boston and the greater New England area. The band, made up of Jake Regulbuto (vocals, guitar), Jules Skiffington (vocals, guitar), Andrew Garas (drums) and Joey Lorant (bass), shared a split EP in 2023 called fauna with going222jail and Dino Gala and was followed up by Dry Rot in 2024 with a string of singles in between.

Earlier this year, the group shared 'Bronco.' They've played Boston's Something in the Way Festival and most recently, played NICE, a fest with Otis Shanty. They've also shared bills with Ohio State Fair, Soup Dreams and My Guitar Is Trying To Kill Me.

Blending sounds across shoegaze, bedroom pop, punk and alt-country, the group continues to chart their own territory. With their debut album on the way, Gollylagging are thrilled to share their most self-assured work yet as they cement themselves in the indie rock space.

Real Life Tracklisting

01. Bronco

02. Comet

03. Red Fish

04. Kill Devil Hills

05. Scarecrow

06. Heart of Ice

07. Real Life

08. Giant

09. Jackknife

10. Terminator

Gollylagging Live 2026

Aug. 22 - Milford, NH - Wildflower Festival @ Keyes Field Stage

Aug. 23 - Somerville, MA - Supporting Victoryland and Drook @ The Rockwell

About Gollylagging

Big brothers of the Boston scene, the four members of Gollylagging have spent the last few years sharpening their rock and roll axes at DIY venues, bars, opening gigs, and bedrooms around New England, with a smattering of singles, EPs, and splits to show for it. Now, after enough reps to find the sound they were in search of, they're ready to bring their ideas together on their first full-length project. Shedding the emo-inflected sound of their earlier singles but holding onto their sonic density, Gollylagging's debut album is a statement to the band they've always been from the band they've been becoming.

Longtime frontman and guitarist Jake Regulbuto splits vocals for the first time with lead guitarist Jules Skiffington, both of their voices resting in an upper register that finds melody naturally. Their guitar conversations are shepherded through time by Andrew Garas on drums and Joey Lorant on bass, whose sharp playing partakes in but gives shape to the fuzz that Gollylagging embraces so intentionally.

About Disposable America

Disposable America is an independent record label in New England, originally formed in 2012 as a strictly cassette tape focused launchpad for Boston local projects. Over the years, it has developed a deep and diverse cross-genre discography of artists worldwide, spread across all physical formats. Disposable America has acted as a springboard for bands like Horse Jumper of Love or Soft Blue Shimmer by helping to release their debut outputs, it has been home to lesser known side projects like Dee-Parts or Cloud Cover, it has shined light onto undersung artists involved with other labels like Infinity Girl, Pink Navel, or bedbug, and it currently boasts a sonically mixed but mighty lineup that includes Main Era, How Strange It Is, Grace Givertz, Carol, (T-T)b, Otis Shanty, Really Great, etcetera.

Nearing a decade and a half, the Disposable America discography remains the curated labor of love of founder and sole personnel Dustin J. S. Watson, but maintains a strong emphasis on building upon and fostering community among both its active and former roster, its orbit of often-associated-but-not-actually-technically-really-on-the-label artists, and especially its listeners.

GOLLYLAGGING has upcoming live shows planned, including a headline set at Wildflower Festival in New Hampshire and a support slot for VICTORYLAND and DROOK in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Photo Credit: Zoe Hopper

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