Ceremony's new album, "Tell Me Your Dream", marks a return to form for the L.A. alt-punk band after two records that saw them experiment unsuccessfully with synth-driven post-punk and new wave sounds. Clash's review, published on 6 August 2026, credits the album with recapturing the energy of the band's earlier work while retaining some of the more refined songwriting from their recent output, calling it the record "Ceremony are supposed to be".

The ten-track album is described as loose, melodic and built on sharp indie-punk songwriting, with frontman Ross Farrar delivering pointed, politically charged lyrics on tracks such as "Madness" and "10 Planets". Highlights include "Other Hells", praised as the album's hardest and best track, and closer "Paradise", a slower, more reflective piece. The reviewer's main criticism is that "Madness" feels over-produced compared with the rest of the record, and that the album could have taken more risks overall; it was awarded 7 out of 10.