London based indie rock/baggy/alt band The Utopiates have returned with their catchy new single “Neighbourhood“.
The song is out now and is the first taste from their highly-anticipated second album due out in late 2025. Get it here.
Following on from the success of their debut album ‘The Sun Also Rises’, released in May 2023 (TSAR), The Utopiates are out to prove they are one of the most prolific new bands out there at the minute. Signed to V2 Records they’ve spent the first part of 2024 recording and mixing 11 brand new tracks at The Nave in Leeds (Yard Act, Kaiser Chiefs).
Singer, Dan, says of the new song and the second album project as a whole:
“We’ve always been a band that likes to mix it up and look to loads of different influences in the music we write. Since our inception (in 2021) we’ve been labelled New Wave, Baggy, 90s Revival and even (New) Nu-Rave! But our mantra has always been ‘let’s make people move’ and that won’t change just yet. So, we’re stacking with the ‘big-guitar groove’ but this time around we’re looking a little more in the direction of New York rather than Manchester, while borrowing slightly from our post-punk counterparts in some of the producton. “
“Neighbourhood itself is an angry assessment of society’s double standards and what we’ve let ourselves grow used to in the last 15 years or so. We’re asking for a change in attitude, and we think it reflects the mood of the nation right now, 100%.”
UPDATE 09/30/2024: The band have now shared the companying video, watch it below.
Upcoming Gigs
24.09.24 Victoria Dalston (single launch party)
Photo credit: Luis Kramer
