Glen Phillips is the front man of the multi-platinum band, Toad the Wet Sprocket, who have brought us such Billboard-charting hits as “Walk on the Ocean”, “All I Want”, “Something’s Always Wrong”, and “Fall Down", and they're releasing their first new album in 16 years, "New Constellation" with the help of a very successful Kickstarter campaign started on June 5 and ending on August 4th.

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Toad the Wet Sprocket*, the band famed for such Billboard-charting hits as “Walk on the Ocean”, “All I Want”, “Something’s Always Wrong”, and “Fall Down” has been back in the studio again, recording their first album together in 16 years. The same creative curiosity that inspired the band to form in 1986 and then to branch out in different directions in 1998 has brought them full circle to come back together again. As Glen Phillips put it, "At some point we would play shows and remember not why we'd broken up, but why we got together in the first place. That made it possible and exciting to move forward again." The result is *New Constellation**, *an album of new material produced by Mikal Blue and being released on the band’s label, Abe’s Records, September 3, 2013. Bassist, Dean Dinning says,
"The idea to make this record was born out of the fact that we are really enjoying playing live together again- and adding new songs into the set just makes it that much better.” Phillips added, "We've all been making music outside of the band for a while now. It's amazing to get back together and incorporate all we've learned in the last years but immediately hear the sonic signature that is essentially Toad re-emerge."

The band’s first single from the album and title track *“New
Constellation”*premiered on *Rolling Stone*’s site June 5th, 2013. In a statement about the track, Glen Phillips said, “After not having recorded as Toad the Wet Sprocket for over 16 years, we finally decided to make a new record for our fans. "New Constellation" was the very first new song written specifically for the band. After a decade in the folk/singer/songwriter world it was exciting to write with the band in mind. I wanted come up with material that would respect our origins but also respect everything we'd learned in the intervening years. The lyric veers from outer space to patron saints to depression to heroic gestures of love in a quick three minute pop song. We hope you like it.”

Click here to hear “New Constellation” on RollingStone.com:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/toad-the-wet-sprocket-find-a-new-constellation-song-premiere-20130605

This release is the first time the band is going independent, which is why Toad has called their fans to action through a Kickstarter Campaign which will help to fund the final stages of recording and releasing of the album. The immediate goal set for $50,000 over the course of 60 days was reached in under 24-hours on June 5th, 2013, and is now funding at over 200% the goal after 15 days and counting.

In the words of Glen Phillips, "We started out a teenage garage band, recording our first two records on our own and then licensing them to the Columbia label. The music world has changed a great deal since then, but brought us back to the indie world. We are once again an unsigned band, and that offers us great flexibility and a chance to avoid some of the pitfalls of a traditional record deal. Through our Kickstarter campaign we will be able to launch the new record independently, directly to and funded by
those who care most about our music. Perhaps we'll partner with a company later on, but for now we are more than happy to have this be between us and our fans.”

Read more about the Kickstarter Campaign on *Billboard.com* (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1567367/toad-the-wet-sprocket-caught-off-guard-by-fan-support-for-new-album) and stay tuned for further details surrounding the release. Toad will be touring throughout the year, and continuing into 2014.