2025 has been a landmark year for Ziggy Alberts.
He kicked off the year with his seventh studio album ‘New Love’, a record that has since amassed over 30 million streams in its first six months.
He hit the road with a 105-date world tour – selling out esteemed venues across Europe and North America, including a sold-out Royal Albert Hall in London just last night.
To top it off, he’s coming home to close out the year with a final run of capital city shows – including his first arena performance at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena.
He now returns with ‘Cyclones’ – an energetic, sun-soaked single destined to soundtrack the summer.
Blending Ziggy’s signature lyrical vulnerability with a more atmospheric folk-pop sound, ‘Cyclones’ is both an earworm and an evolution in his sound, marking continued growth from acoustic storyteller to genre-blending craftsman.
On the songwriting process, Ziggy said, “This song first landed on my lap in Fiji on a surf trip in 2024.”
“I raced back from coffee, and managed to catch it then and there. It’s so easy to blame the weather for our own stormy lives. I know I do it all the time. It’s looking back and seeing old habits still being true. And thinking that, it doesn’t matter if things weren’t going to last forever, it’s just asking myself – did I really do enough? Or did I just walk away like I always do?
“It’s about being attracted to chaos, like a moth to a flame; you know it’s a mess in the making but you can’t help it sometimes.”
His upcoming Homecoming tour will see Ziggy hitting some of the biggest stages of his career in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne later next month, including his first ever arena show at Margaret Court Arena.
Cyclones doesn’t just close out a record year – it’s a signal of what’s to come: bolder production, deeper songwriting, and the same uncompromising independence that’s powered Ziggy Alberts’ journey from busking street corners to the world stage.
Cyclones is out now on streaming platforms.
