Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Pop/R&B Label: Nowhereland Sounds Release Date: 2026 August Ponthier’s story isn’t unfamiliar for a 21st-century artist: A musician goes viral through humorous TikToks; they sign to a major label; the label doesn’t know what to do with them. The Texas-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter’s music doesn’t immediately scan as such a tough sell: It’s lighthearted country-folk, the kind that put Kacey Musgraves and tourmate Brandi Carlile on the map (though Ponthier does have a habit of blurting out an unhinged line like “I wanna wear your skin!” in the chorus of a song). Regardless, Interscope dropped them in 2024, just as they were putting together their debut, Everywhere Isn’t Texas. Then, in October 2025, in the final stages of mastering the album, Ponthier went public about one more major change: They came out as non-binary and changed their name to August.…