News: Hard-Fi Return With New Album And UK December Headline Show
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Recharged and looking sharply at a world gone sideways, Staines’ finest Hard-Fi make their long-awaited return with brand new studio album Sweating Someone Else’s Fever, their first in 15 years, out on June 19th via V2 Records.
Written and recorded throughout 2025 in their synonymous ex-taxi-office-turned studio Cherry Lips, and produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White, the album looks outside the window to the fractured present, and paints it in bold musical strokes, with the same sharp-eyed social commentary that powered their classic debut Stars of CCTV, but with fresh perspective, new sounds and hard-earned freedom.
Named after an El Salvador saying about not fighting other people’s ego-based battles, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever represents Hard-Fi unburdened: playing together again, free from pressure, making music for the joy of it.
First single ‘They Ain’t Your Friends’ arrives with suspicious swagger, directing its fire at the fake allegiances of the online world and the hypocrisies of the modern music industry.
And with that, the band have also announced three huge headline dates in December – London, O2 Academy Brixton, O2 Institute Birmingham & O2 Ritz Manchester, seeing them back where they belong, on the country’s biggest indoor stages. Pre-order the album via the band’s store to access pre-sale.
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