Role Model: Chuck Timely & The Hourglass (watermelon pink vinyl) [INTERSCOPE]

Why you'll love it

Role Model's third album on opaque watermelon pink vinyl. It's the follow-up to the record that spawned the viral "Sally, When the Wine Runs Out," and NME called it "his most likeable album yet."

This edition

• Opaque watermelon pink vinyl
• Single LP, 12 tracks

About the album

Chuck Timely, for the record, is a fictional time traveller, and Tucker Pillsbury (the songwriter behind Role Model) has been careful to say this isn't a concept album, just a record with a good name and a lot on its mind about time, singledom and moving on. It's his third album, out in August 2026, and it follows Kansas Anymore and its deluxe edition, which gave the world "Sally, When the Wine Runs Out" and sent his audience through the roof.

Where the last two records leaned inward, this one opens the windows. NME heard "slickly produced Americana" about the freewheeling single life and called it "his most likeable album yet," singling out the lead single "High Hopes 3000," "Service Receipt," "Stain," "Song Is All You Get" and "Love I You." Twelve songs run from the scene-setting "Chuck's Mantra" to the closing "Harmony," with "Honeydew" and "The Wedding" along the way, and the whole thing has the easy, sunny swing of a Sunday drive with the windows down. For anyone who fell for "Sally" and wants to hear where Role Model went next, this is a very good place to land, and the pink vinyl doesn't hurt.

"The result is his most likeable album yet."
NME

On Interscope, first out in 2026.