Hard-Fi

Here's a reunion we didn't know we needed - over a decade since we last heard from the CCTV stars & they've not lost their knack for a solid indie romp.

Big choruses, lyrics that get straight to the point and some punding drums to nod along to - this is feels like a time capsule from '06.

The first new music from Hard-Fi since 2014. Rolling around a sun-scorched groove and boisterous beats, ‘Don’t Go Making Plans’ is an immediate, soul-infused summer anthem, recorded at the band’s own Staines studio, produced by frontman Richard Archer and long-term contributor Wolsey White. It’s the end result of the first session together since 2011 album, 'Killer Sounds'.

“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 explains. “A track that you can still dance to in a club or play on the radio, because a song like that you can make a real connection to and circumnavigates the pointless restrictions being put in our way. Governments passing laws to stop protests that ‘cause more than minor disruption’ feels like something out of a dystopian film. The whole point of protest is disruption. You’re trying to interrupt the inevitable flow of things, to encourage the people running the country to think again, especially when you have a government that doesn’t seem to be bothered by what people actually need.”