Pias news – Apparat announces new album ‘a hum of maybe’
APPARAT ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF A NEW ALBUM
A HUM OF MAYBE – OUT 20 FEB 2026
LISTEN TO THE FIRST TRACK, 'AN ECHO SKIPS A NAME'
Apparat - An Echo Skips A Name (alternate take)
Berlin-based musician, producer and composer Apparat (aka Sascha Ring) has announced details of his sixth studio album, A Hum Of Maybe. The new album will be released on Mute on limited edition double turquoise vinyl, double vinyl, CD and digitally on 20 February 2026.

A Hum Of Maybe is a complex and deeply personal album – one that carries the weight of the years that have passed since his last album, 2019's LP5. The album took form after a long period of writer's block, where his connection to music seemed lost, buried deep, untraceable. To break this block, he challenged himself with a radical resolution: to come up with one idea for a song every day, free from pressure, judgement and the pursuit of perfection, it didn't matter how undeveloped or incomplete the sketches were. Gradually, this new daily routine had a therapeutic effect, helping him to regain his confidence in himself and his musical process. From the countless fragments created in over six months in 2025, the strongest songs soon emerged, taking shape as the contours of his sixth album, A Hum Of Maybe.


The album launches today with 'An Echo Skips A Name (Alternate Take)'. With its blend of warm percussion and dreamlike synth pads, the track is about how a relationship can grow distant – so gradually that the change goes almost unnoticed. Ring calls it a "gentle fade of recognition".

At its core A Hum Of Maybe is about love - for himself, his wife and his daughter - and about holding onto it, protecting it and constantly recalibrating as it is in a constant state of flux. Working on the lyrics helped him focus on what was important to him in the midst of it all the turmoil. As the album title suggests, the songs are about being stuck in between: not a clear yes or no, but A Hum Of Maybe. "It's a maybe that is not weakness, but a space where things can grow," explains Ring. The album embraces a state of limbo, where there are no longer any unbreakable certainties or clear answers, only a multitude of simultaneities and intermediate states. Not or, but and: Analogue and digital. One and zero. Micro and macro. Light and shadow. "The hum is that undercurrent of potential - the in-between, where life actually happens."

The album was created with the help of his long-standing musical collaborators who lend the eleven tracks a warm, organic band dynamic, and who will also be performing with him at upcoming live shows: Philipp Johann Thimm (cello, piano, guitar), who also co-wrote and co-produced the album, Christoph "Mäckie" Hamann (violin, keyboard, bass), Jörg Wähner (drums), and Christian Kohlhaas (trombone). In addition, Armenian-American singer KÁRYYN features on 'Tilth', and Berlin-and Rome-based musician Jan-Philipp Lorenz (aka Bi Disc) on 'Pieces, Falling'.

A Hum Of Maybe is detailed, finely crafted, and wonderfully unpredictable, rich in melodies, textures, free forms, and modulations. Ring elegantly combines the perspectives of an electronic producer and a classical composer.

A new chapter.
A bold dive into the complexities of life.
A Hum Of Maybe will be released on Mute on 20 February 2026.

A Hum Of Maybe tracklisting
Glimmerine

A Slow Collision

Gravity Test

Tilth - w/ KÁRYYN

Hum Of Maybe

An Echo Skips A Name

Enough For Me

Lunes

Williamsburg

Pieces, Falling - w/ Bi Disc

Recalibration

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