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2025

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2025 was centered round the release and promotion of Dr. Dark, as well as the debut of the Eskimo Live show.

Timeline

January

February

  • 1st: Marie Losier's Barking in the Dark premieres at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in a press-exclusive screening.[2]
  • 5th: The Residents publish 'Doctor Dark's Gift' on their social media platforms.[3]
  • 8th: The Residents announce that they are officially abandoning Twitter as a platform.[4]
  • 14th: An edit of "Ol' Man River" from Doctor Dark is released as a single.[5]
  • 20th: A promotional video is published explaining the origins of Doctor Dark and announcing an upcoming tour of Eskimo in the Fall.[6]
  • 28th: Doctor Dark is released on Cherry Red / MVD as a CD[7] or 2xLP.[8] Collector's editions are soon issued by Psychofon.

March

  • 22nd: Animator Bruce Bickford's film Prometheus' Garden is shown at the TV Eye in New York City with a new score composed of one-minute segments by 28 artists, including members of Sonic Youth, Foetus, Lightning Bolt, Bauhaus, and of course, The Residents.[9]
  • 27th: Barking in the Dark has its public premiere at the CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 28th: A music video for "The Crying Clown" made by Daniel Blafford (dreambreeder 079) is released,[10] along with an 11-minute "Hypnopompic Hallucinatory Assimilation" remix produced by Blafford.

April

  • 2nd: A performance of Eskimo at the Exotikon festival in Los Angeles is announced.[11]
  • 4th: After many delays and licensing complications, the American Composers Series pREServed set is finally due for release in June.[12]
  • 13th: Barking in the Dark wins "Best Direction for Avantgarde & Genre Film" award at the BAFICI festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[13]
  • 25th: A single mix of "White Guys with Guns" from Doctor Dark is released.[14] / A New Ralph Too newsletter mentions that demos have already been made for The Residents' next album.
  • 30th: The earliest Wayback archives of The Residents' new bandcamp page are from this date, exclusively featuring the two Melodic Virtue singles.

May

June

  • 7th: The Residents perform Eskimo at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles for the Exotikon festival. The half-hour performance is followed by an encore of assorted "classic era" and Dookietown songs, as well as a tribute to the Residents' late mentor N. Senada.
  • 20th: The American Composers Series pREServed set is finally released on Cherry Red / MVD, although with less content than originally planned due to licensing complications.

July

August

  • 1st: Household Objects, a collaboration project organized by William Hayter and Barry Lamb, is released on Bandcamp. The Residents contribute the new track "No Mouse is an Island".[16]

September

  • 4th: A music video for "Metal Madness", directed by Dutch filmmaker Edwin Brienen, is posted on The Residents' YouTube channel.[17] It serves as a trailer for a short film by Brienen with the same title, set to premiere the next day on Night Flight Plus.[18]
  • 5th: The Cryptic Corporation has a 24-hour live takeover at Night Flight Plus (NFTV 3), where along with all the Residents video material available on the platform, the films Barking in the Dark and Metal Madness are premiered, along with a new "video profile" special.
  • 26th: Doctor Dark's Demos (teased in the August newsletter) is released on streaming platforms.

October

  • 1st: The dates for the Eskimo Live! North American tour of 2026 are announced.
  • 27th: Professionally-recorded footage of the "Cortical Nights" performance at the Cortical Palace in Paris is uploaded to YouTube by GR34UD5TUD10 (likely Loris Gréaud himself).[19]
  • 30th: The 2005 live album The Way We Were is reissued on Klanggalerie with a bonus disc of rehearsals.[20]
  • 31st: Leftovers (1970-1988), an expanded 2xCD edition of the three Record Store Day LPs of archival material, is released on Cherry Red / MVD.

November

December

  • 6th: In the Cherry Red mailing list newsletter, a sampler mini-album titled Things to Come, pt.2 is issued, containing excerpt tracks from future pREServed and Bandcamp releases, including the newly-announced "Evolution Edition" of Animal Lover.
  • 22nd: The Eskimo Live 2026 tour is postponed to later in the year due to "unexpected and serious" health issues in the group.[21]

Releases

  • Doctor Dark (studio album)
  • Doctor Dark's Demos (streaming-only release)
  • Metal Madness (short film directed by Edwin Brienen)
  • "Ol' Man River (Machine Edit)" (single)
  • "White Guys with Guns" (single edit)
  • "The Crying Clown" (music video by dreambreeder 079)
  • "Duck Sauce" (visualizer)
  • "Dead Already" (music video by Lali Wilde)
  • "The Skeleton at the Bottom of the Sea" (AI-assisted music video)
  • "The Tale of Two Tupilaqs" (AI-assisted music video)

Re-releases

Newsletter freebies

  • "Doctor Dark's Gift" (album sampler) - January 31st
  • Seven Cats (second EP of Hunters material) - April 25th
    1. "Cat Boat"
    2. "Cat Call Two"
    3. "Empty"
    4. "End Cats"
    5. "Hard Work"
    6. "One Cat"
    7. "Stranded"
  • "That'll Be the Day" (demo - taken from American Composers set) - June 27th
  • "Shut Up RDX" (taken from upcoming Leftovers CD) - July 25th
  • DDDEMMMOOO (mini-album of Doctor Dark demos from 2022-2023) - August 31st
    1. "Metal Madness" (2023)
    2. "White Guys with Guns" (2022)
    3. "Maggot Remembers" segment (2022)
    4. "She Was Never Lovelier" - instrumental (2022)
    5. "The Gift" (2023)
    6. "Still Gun Crazy" - instrumental (2022)
    7. "Unchanged" (2022)
    8. "The Gift Keeps Giving" (2023)
    9. "River Pieces" (2022)
  • I Know An Old Lady..... (third EP of Hunters material) - October 25th
    1. "Ant Kill"
    2. "Beet War"
    3. "Jack Trippin"
    4. "Deadly Games of Grace"
    5. "Brown Bear"
    6. "Hyena Hunt"
    7. "Feast"
  • Things to Come, pt.2 (sampler of upcoming pREServed and Bandcamp releases) - December 6th
    1. "Chopshop, pt.1" – from The Highway
    2. "I'm in the Mood for Crime" – from Music to Eat Bricks By
    3. "Death Dance" – from Hunters, Vol. 4: Insex
    4. "The Service" – from G3P Live at the Presidio
    5. "Aura Lee" (vocal demo) – from Animal Lover pREServed
    6. "Eskimo (Exploratorium excerpt)" – from Eskimo Mixed Live: Exploratorium
    7. "TMF86RB pt.3" – from The Mysterious February '86 Radio Broadcast
    8. "Hammerhead" – from Hunters, Vol. 6: Sharks and the Sea
    9. "On the Way to Oklahoma for Christmas" – from Animal Lover pREServed
    10. "Santa Dog" (2013 rehearsal jam)

Other appearances

  • "No Mouse is an Island" - Household Objects (and sundry massed gadgets)

References

  1. ↑ https://klanggalerie.com/gg225-2
  2. ↑ https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/barking-in-the-dark
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IWS8SyqPQ&ab_channel=theresidents
  4. ↑ Facebook post.
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StF8YsYw5a8&ab_channel=theresidents
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofs-POhnTrg&ab_channel=theresidents
  7. ↑ https://www.cherryred.co.uk/the-residents-doctor-dark-cd-edition
  8. ↑ https://www.cherryred.co.uk/the-residents-doctor-dark-double-vinyl-edition
  9. ↑ https://www.seetickets.us/event/bruce-bickfords-prometheus-garden/637892
  10. ↑ YouTube.
  11. ↑ https://residents.com/news/?article=20250402-1100
  12. ↑ https://residents.com/news/?article=20250404-0959
  13. ↑ https://bafici.org/se-anunciaron-los-ganadores-del-bafici-26/
  14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQCu3Fu5WR0
  15. ↑ https://klanggalerie.com/gg509
  16. ↑ https://householdobjects.bandcamp.com/track/no-mouse-is-an-island-the-residents
  17. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9Mw10Xu1E&ab_channel=theresidents
  18. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/DN-oywQCJ94/
  19. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLwN2mDdF7w
  20. ↑ https://klanggalerie.com/gg517
  21. ↑ Bluesky post.
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