New Album The All-Night Costume Company Releases March 4, 2026
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Tacoma, Washington songwriter Kye Alfred Hillig returns with “Our Remaining Pig,” the second single from his upcoming album The All-Night Costume Company, out March 4, 2026. Arriving February 4, the track pushes deeper into Hillig’s emotional terrain, pairing alternative-country and indie rock with a writer’s instinct for metaphor, restraint, and uncomfortable honesty. Where the album’s first single reintroduced Hillig’s voice, “Our Remaining Pig” begins to reveal the stakes.
Hillig has spent more than two decades rooted in the Puget Sound music scene, balancing songwriting with the realities of work, community, and long stretches away from the spotlight. Across nine solo albums, he’s developed a reputation for sharp melodies and lyrics that refuse to look away from difficult truths. His songs often sit at the intersection of personal reckoning and shared experience, finding meaning not in resolution, but in saying the hard thing plainly. Fans of The Jayhawks, Neil Young, Uncle Tupelo, Father John Misty, Kevin Morby, MJ Lenderman, and early Wilco will recognize the lineage, even as Hillig’s voice remains distinctly his own.
“Our Remaining Pig” takes its title and emotional core from an image that surfaced during Hillig’s time in art therapy. “I drew a man on his family farm wading across a river toward the final living pig, knowing he had to slaughter it,” Hillig explains. “You can tell he doesn’t want to do this, but sometimes the hard thing is exactly what must be done.” In the song, that image becomes a parallel for a relationship at a breaking point, a moment where avoidance only deepens the damage. “Sometimes couples just need to say the honest and painful thing,” he adds. “No one benefits from avoiding the suffering that comes with growth.”
Musically, the track unfolds with patience and weight, anchored by a vocal performance that carries some of the emotional directness and upward reach associated with early The Killers, paired with a Springsteen-like earnestness in tone and delivery. Fuzzy bass lines hold down the bottom end, giving the song a low, unsettled hum, while keys rise and fall throughout the arrangement, cutting light through the darkness without resolving it. Guitars remain measured and deliberate, letting the tension build rather than explode, until the chorus opens into something big and genuinely emotive, a release that feels hard-won rather than theatrical. The result is a song that feels expansive but grounded, willing to sit with discomfort instead of rushing past it.
Recorded at Ex Ex Studios in Seattle and produced and mixed by Johnny Nails, “Our Remaining Pig” continues to reveal the shape of The All-Night Costume Company. It’s a song about choosing honesty over comfort, about crossing a river you’d rather not enter because staying put is worse. As a second glimpse into the album, it signals a record unafraid of discomfort, and a songwriter willing to sit with it long enough for something true to emerge.
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