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Ruined walls and arched recesses of a stone mission church, rubble and tall grass in the foreground

The Mission

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Ruins
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Kindness Is
a Weapon

№ NMU 261029 A · blog singlerel. October 29, 20265 min 26 s · stereo · Cooking Vinyl
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The first track from Songs for Kith and Kin, The Mission’s first studio album in over a decade – out on Cooking Vinyl on April 2, 2027. Wayne Hussey’s band, formed in 1986 after he and Craig Adams left The Sisters of Mercy, launched it with this official lyric video on October 29, 2026; album pre-orders opened the same day.

The Mission. From Songs for Kith and Kin, Cooking Vinyl, April 2, 2027. Sources: The Mission on YouTube, The Mission. Photograph: a view of parts of Mission San Juan Capistrano in ruins – the Great Stone Church, brought down by the 1812 earthquake – Orange County, California, c. 1900, by Charles C. Pierce, California Historical Society Collection, USC Digital Library (public domain). Wikimedia Commons.

№
NMU 261029 A
artist
The Mission
title
Kindness Is a Weapon
from
Songs for Kith and Kin (2027)
label
Cooking Vinyl
photograph
Charles C. Pierce, Mission San Juan Capistrano in ruins, c. 1900. Public domain.
filed
October 29, 2026
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