
East London art wave/post punk/krautrock band Snapped Ankles have announced the release of their new studio album ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing‘.
Along with the announcement they have also shared the lead single “Raoul” and its accompanying video. The record will be out on March 28 through The Leaf Label. Pre-order your copy here.
Hard Times Furious Dancing is an invitation to all those lost in the unrelenting noise of the present, to leave it all behind and come together in the forest. Driven by the primitive thrust of their single-oscillator ‘log’ synths, high and low culture collide in a surreal, free flowing narrative – but the rhythm is universal. This is easily the closest Snapped Ankles have come to capturing their rapturous live energy in the studio. It’s everything you’ve come to know and love from a Snapped Ankles album, amped all the way up until the ground begins to shake.
The sound of Hard Times Furious Dancing evolved at Snapped Ankles’ South London ‘Forest Rayve’ club nights in 2024 in response to that age-old primal urge to bring people together and make them move. It’s the first time the woodwose have road tested new material to this extent before committing it to tape since debut album Come Play the Trees, and in doing so have harnessed that feral energy once again. This surreal human/woodwose connection is the very best release from an algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself. Dance it all loose.
The title takes inspiration from Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (2010, New World Library).
“We can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one… hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof”
Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (2010)
Check out “Raoul” below followed by the album’s artwork and tracklist.

Snapped Ankles “Hard Times Furious Dancing” Tracklist:
- Pay The Rent
- Personal Responsibilities
- Raoul
- Dancing In Transit
- Where’s the Caganer?
- Smart World
- Hagen Im Garten
- 摆烂 Bai Lan
- Closely Observed
Photo taken from the band’s Facebook page