The Family is the seventh and penultimate studio album by American boy band BROCKHAMPTON. The album was officially released on November 17, 2022, through RCA and Question Everything. The release of a final album in 2022 was announced during the band's performance at the 2022 Coachella festival. The group surprised fans with an announcement of an additional album TM the day of The Family's release, to be released the following day on November 18, 2022. In January 2022, BROCKHAMPTON announced their disbandment via social media, which was to follow their scheduled performances at O2 Academy Brixton and Coachella. During their performance at Coachella on April 16, 2022, they announced a then-unnamed final album, to be released in the same year. Two days later, the video projected during the performance would be released to their YouTube page, titled "Message from BROCKHAMPTON". In October 2022, the band created a private Instagram user named @imissthebandalready. An image of the unfollowed state of this page would be reposted on the band's official Instagram page's story in the latter half of October. On October 27, 2022, BROCKHAMPTON posted a one-minute video titled "I Miss the Band Already" to their YouTube and Instagram pages, teasing a final album announcement. In the comments of the Instagram video, Kevin Abstract stated that there would be a follow-up in "one hour..." As such, an hour later, an album teaser for The Family was released to their YouTube and Instagram page