It’s official, I guess?
After dropping his long-awaited sixth studio album, With Heaven On Top back in January, Zach Bryan has been hitting the road hard on his current international run of shows, With Heaven On Tour. Kicking off back in March, the “Something in the Orange” singer has already played sold-out shows at Bank of America Stadium, Raymond James Stadium, Memorial Stadium and more here in the U.S. He’s also hit the likes of the U.K., Spain, Germany, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands across the pond, selling out there as well.
Though he’s been on tour internationally for the majority of the year, Bryan took most of July off. In typical fashion, however, he was far from off the grid. Returning to social media after being deactivated on most accounts, he went back to the basics on the 4th of July weekend, taking to YouTube on July 3rd to tease “Lodi When” once again. Additionally, he’d post a full-length teaser of a brand-new track, “Better Friends.” In the caption of both of these videos, which have since been deleted, the Oklahoma native revealed that he has a new EP on the way with an incredibly interesting, for lack of a better word, name called Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs:
“A snippet of ‘Lodi When’ off the new EP, ‘Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs’”
Since announcing the EP back in July, Bryan has been keeping the release date pretty close to his chest, only confirming that it will come out in October at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 8th. With that being said, however, he’s confirmed that the likes of “Lodi When,” “You’ll Get By,” “Backwards” and “Robot Killed The Working Man” will make appearances on the project — all of which have been in heavy rotation at his recent shows over the past month.
Though it seemed as if Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs would simply appear on streaming services randomly one day, last night at his second sold-out show at Rogers Centre in Toronto, he confirmed that the EP will officially be released on Friday, October 16th, “if all goes well.”
Before confirming that “Backwards” will be on the project, he’d tell the crowd:
“I got an EP coming out next month. It comes out October 16th if all goes well. Here’s a song off there called ‘Backwards.'”
Though we don’t have a full tracklist for Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs, here are five songs that should appear on the EP next month.
5 Songs That May Appear On The New EP
1. “Lodi When”
Given the fact that Bryan began teasing “Lodi When” back in the spring, it always felt as if it was primed to be a full-fledged release. Over the months, it’s been a pretty big hit among fans on TikTok, racking up hundreds of thousands of likes on different reuploaded videos.
Overall, it’s not very surprising how much it connected to fans, given the fact that it feels like a classic track from the “Say Why” singer. Complete with a heavy dose of harmonica (and some stellar harmonies on an older version), it finds him reminiscing on a lost love out in Lodi, California.
“If you could write a book on,
The man that you once were,
Would you write about drinking,
Or would you write about her,
If you could just go back to the places you once been,
Would you run back to her arms,
Or back to Lodi when”
Though the aforementioned YouTube video was deleted, it has been confirmed that “Lodi When” will appear on the EP during multiple shows over the two months.
2. “Better Friends”
Just like “Lodi When,” “Better Friends” is another song that was confirmed to appear on Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs. Unlike “Lodi When,” however, the now-deleted YouTube video was the first time we got a glimpse of the track.
In what looks to be one of his most personal reflections to date, here, Bryan touches on feelings of isolation and disconnection from the world around him, pondering whether having better friends would make him feel less alone.
“Where do you go when the night’s at its bitter end?
Are these one of the times that you wish that you had better friends?
If it takes a lifetime, I will wait one and a day
To have some better friends, until the bitter end they’d stay”
@burnburnburners Better Friends – Zach Bryan – unreleased #zachbryan #zachbryanmusic #fyp
3. “You’ll Get By”
If you haven’t been keeping up with Bryan’s setlists lately, “You’ll Get By” has become quite a regular, especially during his recent trip across the pond in Europe. After teasing a studio version of the track, the Oklahoma native has performed it a staggering 11 times already on tour.
For all intents and purposes, this looks to be Bryan’s next big hit. Of course, this is mainly thanks to the immense amount of buzz it’s already gotten on TikTok, with the most popular video of the song getting a hefty 684,300 views, 125,300 likes and an additional 1,700 posts using the sound clip.
“So be kind when it ain’t easy
Don’t let the vices in deep
And call up your mama when you’ve got the time
Let the trash take itself out
Don’t let ’em tell you Oklahoma ain’t in the South
Never let your hands work for a rich man’s dime
You’ll get by”
@jeffcb1977 Zach Bryan You’ll Get By (unreleased) night 2 at The Woodlands in Dover 9/19/2026 #zachbryan #youllgetby #zachbryanunreleased #zachbryanconcert #withheavenontop
4. “Backwards”
After teasing the track back on July 18th over on YouTube, before once again deleting it from the platform, Bryan debuted the song live in Eugene, Oregon, at Autzen Stadium. Like the aforementioned tracks, the Oklahoma native would confirm this one will make EP on multiple occasions.
Here, Bryan once again laments with feelings of being an outsider, remarking how he doesn’t “feel human anymore” in the first verse. Additionally, he points to having regrets about past actions in the chorus, noting how everything he’s ever said has been in reverse.
“Well, I don’t feel human anymore, Mama
When am I ever going to get that karma
You said was heading back down this way
The knife inside my back feels so familiar
Reminds me of the real her
Cold and sharp pocket blade
This is how you walk backwards
Everything I’ve ever said, I said in reverse
Everything I ever did, what’s it all worth?
Live and learn how to walk backwards”
@jeffcb1977 Zach Bryan Backwards (unreleased with a new verse) night 1 at The Woodlands in Dover 9/18/2026 #zachbryan #backwards #zachbryanunreleased #zachbryanconcert #withheavenontop
5. “Robot Killed The Working Man”
Continuing his penchant for penning songs about hot-button issues, as we saw with his “anti-ICE” anthem, “Bad News,” earlier in the year, the 30-year-old singer/songwriter takes aim at the rise of AI and data centers on his newest track that has been confirmed to appear on the EP, “Robot Killed The Working Man.”
Lamenting the fact that his home doesn’t feel the same anymore, highlighted by unemployment and degradation of the land, Bryan launches into the scathing chorus. Here, he likens the rise of AI and technology as a whole to a death sentence for the working class, noting they “sealed up the coffin” and “sold off the land.”
“The robot killed the working man
Took the damn hammer right out of his hands
Sealed up the coffin, sold off the land
Repressed a good boy with machines in their hand
Sooner or later, more soon than not
Them home-grown tomatoes are ripe then they rot
For no rhyme or reason, no helping hand
The day the robot killed the working man”
@jeffcb1977 Zach Bryan Robot Killed the Working Man (unreleased) at The Woodlands in Dover Delaware 9/18/2026 #zachbryan #robotkilledtheworkingman #zachbryanconcert #zachbryanunreleased #unreleasedmusic
Zach Bryan Tour Dates
October 2 – Foxborough, Massachusetts – Gillette Stadium – Gregory Alan Isakov & Gabriella Rose
October 3 – Foxborough, Massachusetts – Gillette Stadium – Gregory Alan Isakov & Gabriella Rose
October 10 – Auburn, Alabama – Jordan-Hare Stadium – Gregory Alan Iskov & Gabriella Rose
