Earl Sweatshirt, Mike, And Surf Gang Release New Album

Official Announcement | Published: Apr 03, 2026 10:32 AM EDT

(Orienteer) Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and SURF GANG release their double album POMPEII // UTILITY via 10k/Tan Cressida/SURF GANG Records. A long-rumored, coveted collaboration between two friends who happen to be two of the most critically celebrated rappers in the game and renowned producer collective SURF GANG, the double album is a capstone on the musical community they've cultivated over the last decade.

From top to bottom, there was a clear concerted effort to keep every angle of the project within the family. All of the art for this project, from single covers to the album cover, is pulled from work by sculptor and Earl Sweatshirt's childhood friend, Sharif Farrag. Stream it here

Over the past week, Earl, MIKE and SURF GANG have shut down intimate venues in LA and New York City for two secret shows they unveiled via a scavenger hunt on their website last month. The third and final secret show will take place tonight in London, ahead of their Home on the Range tour in support of the album, which kicks off in June.

The official Home on the Range tour will include 26 US stops beginning June 9th in Riverside, before taking it overseas to Europe. MIKE and Earl also announced a series of Australian and New Zealand tour dates in May, including a show at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE Festival.

Structured as a double-sided album with MIKE on one side (POMPEII) and Earl on the other (UTILITY), SURF GANG's Harrison, evilgiane, Elipropperr, and Flea Diamonds lace an animated and frenetic framework through the project with their production, resulting in a full-circle collision of worlds that was inevitable. POMPEII // UTILITY translates those nuanced differences between MIKE, Earl & SURF GANG into a singular language of their own, evoking a shared ethos of collaboration and community-building rather than a transactional exercise. The producer collective's distinctly online, manic song structures give MIKE & Earl a new opportunity to fold their shared propensity for coded, meditative verses into the larger community they've built through their friendship since MIKE first caught the world's, and Earl's, attention in 2016, ahead of his cult classic 2017 album MAY GOD BLESS YOUR HUSTLE. In the years since, the pair have tallied notable collaborations like "allstar" on MIKE's 2020 album weight of the world, and "Sentry" on Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist's collab album VOIR DIRE.