Three’s Company

Summer, 2026

With a new album and a giant tour, Muna strips synth pop down to its pulse.

IN HER 20S, Muna’s lead vocalist, Katie Gavin, stumbled upon the “Sappho” pictorial in the October 1975 issue of Playboy at a thrift store. For a while, it was the only item she had displayed on the coffee table of her Echo Park apartment in L.A.

“At the time, I was still on a journey of [dealing] with the hyper-visibility of my sexuality. Being in a queer...