Premiere: Dancehall Shares New Single “One thing”
New Album 100% Music Due Out on October twenty fourth by way of Vibe/Anti-Vibe
Oct 23, 2025
Pictures by Eddie Whelan
Tomorrow, UK put up punk trio Dancehall is again with their sophomore album, 100% Music, their first full-length launch since their 2018 debut, The Band. Within the years since, the band shared their 2020 EP, Distant Summer time, earlier than returning with a handful of latest singles, teasing the brand new document and deploying the band’s scrappy, tightly-wound vitality with newfound precision.
Though the band’s first effort captured the fuzzy DIY really feel of their dwell performances, their newest document sees them honing their spiky songwriting and infectious guitar hooks to a serrated edge, upping the manufacturing element whereas retaining their propulsive aesthetics. They introduced on manufacturing from their longtime collaborator Christopher Smith and mixing from Hank Sullivant (MGMT). “It went from sounding like a dwell band to full-blown technicolour,” says guitarist Craig Sharp. “We wished it to sound ‘full’. Neon-bright. Playful. Bizarre, however approachable,” they are saying.
Right now, forward of the album’s full launch, Dancehall is sharing an early take heed to one of many document’s remaining highlights, “One thing,” premiering with Below the Radar.
“One thing” is a relentless blast of vitality, capturing the band at their most nerve-fried and anxious. It’s each the shortest and most stressed of the document’s singles, careening ahead atop an infectious descending bassline and crackling, elliptical guitar riff. It comes off like an itchy, needling excessive, full with a ranting mid-song breakdown and a pounding climax. In the meantime, singer and bassist Tim Smithen captures that very same mixture of frustration and exhausted malaise in his lyrics: “My brains are unhealthy / It’s stuffed with mice / I sleep on flooring / It’s not that nice / I obtained a good friend / He comes at evening / He buys me drinks out / It’s not that nice / I need one thing, I need one thing.”
The band says of the monitor, “‘One thing’ is concerning the time after I lived someplace in darkest east London in a flat that regarded like a shop-front and the band’s ego was in carnival mode. However on the identical time it was sincere, dumb, actual and that’s what made it enjoyable: low cost canned beer, infinite tubes, flared nostrils, smelling of final week, not sleeping, writing music, listening to the identical 3 songs time and again and time and again, bed room punks, WhatsApp group on fireplace, quick meals, concern of others. Feeling empty however alive…”
Take a look at the tune under. 100% Music is out on October twenty fourth by way of Vibe/Anti-Vibe.
