Hard-Fi have shared a new single ‘Always And Forever’ from their upcoming EP ‘Don’t Go Making Plans’. Check it out below.
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‘Always And Forever’ sees the Staines indie-rock band instilled with a sense of urgency, battling the daunting feeling of running out of time. Over a bright guitar riff, they deliver a dose of melancholy, singing: “I can’t explain / But seeing you gives me something to live for / And all this time / All this wasted time it’s a heartbreak.”
Frontman Richard Archer has described the track as “a rose-tinted remembering of youth and possibilities, a fantasy of a Hollywood love story in small town Britain and a wistful shout out to doomed romances everywhere.”
The band returned earlier this year with their first single in a decade, ‘Don’t Go Making Plans’, taken from their upcoming EP of the same name. It will be released on November 15, and you can pre-order it here.
Check out ‘Always And Forever’ below.
According to the band, ‘Don’t Go Making Plans’ was initially inspired by the UK Government’s attempts to criminalise many aspects of popular protest through the 2022 Public Order Act, and is meant to provoke thought in the listeners.
“’Don’t Go Making Plans’ is sort of a protest song about protest, but I wanted to encapsulate that message into something that was still a pop song,” Archer explained.
Hard-Fi have also announced a UK tour, which will kick off on November 16 in Hastings. They’ll play Portsmouth, Nottingham, Manchester and more, before concluding with a date at London’s Roundhouse. Visit here to buy tickets and find a full list of tour dates below.
Hard Fi’s 2024 UK tour dates are:
NOVEMBER:
16 – Hastings, White Rock
19 – Portsmouth, Guildhall
21 – Cardiff, Tramshed
22 – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun
23 – Nottingham, Rock City
25 – Glasgow, Garage
26 – Sheffield, The Leadmill
27 – Manchester, Ritz
29 – Leeds, Stylus
30 – London, Roundhouse
The new music from Hard-Fi follows a string of teasers from the band earlier this year, months after wrapping up their first reunion tour in over a decade.
They played a series of sporadic reunion shows in 2022, where their tour celebrating 15 years of ‘Stars of CCTV’ sold out in just 10 minutes. They would later announce their first full UK tour in 11 years in May last year, going on to play London, Liverpool, Sheffield and more in October.
Last year, the band teased they were writing new material when they spoke to NME.
Archer said new Hard-Fi material was “all over the place” at the time, adding: “There’s some ideas I’ve had sat for a while now that I keep thinking I’m gonna do something with, and then other new stuff. It’s still early doors, but we’re just trying to try to work out what it is that Hard-Fi wants to say now.
“‘Stars of CCTV’ seems more relevant now than it did back in 2005, almost. A lot of the subjects are more prescient now perhaps, so, it’s just trying to figure out what is it we want to say, and sonically what do we want to be doing? We’re trying lots of different things out to see what resonates.”
