diff --git a/subwave_nowplaying.star b/subwave_nowplaying.star
index 7986320..b99c910 100644
--- a/subwave_nowplaying.star
+++ b/subwave_nowplaying.star
@@ -311,9 +311,21 @@ def main(config):
         [render.Marquee(width = text_width, child = render.Row(children = show_host_row))]
     )
 
+    # Album/year only at 2x -- there's no spare row for it at 1x's tighter
+    # layout, same reasoning as the show/host split above. Marquee, not a
+    # centered static line like host/time_temp: album titles can run as
+    # long as track titles, so there's no "assumed short" case here to
+    # justify skipping it.
+    album_year_lines = (
+        [render.Marquee(width = text_width, child = render.Text(now["album_year"], font = "tom-thumb", color = colors["meta"]))]
+        if scale == 2 else
+        []
+    )
+
     top_lines = [
         render.Marquee(width = text_width, child = render.Text(now["title"], font = title_font, color = colors["text"])),
         render.Marquee(width = text_width, child = render.Text(now["artist"], font = "tb-8", color = colors["text"])),
+    ] + album_year_lines + [
         render.Box(width = text_width, height = 1, color = colors["separator"]),  # kept at a crisp 1px at every scale, per request, rather than growing to match
     ] + show_lines + [time_temp_line]
 
@@ -950,9 +962,18 @@ def _fetch_now_playing(station_url):
         "show": active_show.get("name", ""),
         "host": dj.get("name", ""),
         "time_temp": _format_time_temp(context.get("clock", {}) or {}, context.get("weather", {}) or {}),
+        "album_year": _format_album_year(np.get("album", ""), np.get("year", None)),
         "online": bool(data.get("streamOnline", False)),
     }
 
+def _format_album_year(album, year):
+    parts = []
+    if album:
+        parts.append(album)
+    if year:
+        parts.append(str(int(year)))
+    return " · ".join(parts)
+
 def _format_time_temp(clock, weather):
     parts = []
     display_time = clock.get("display", "")