Young Knives announce new album ‘Landfill’ with “deep and fun” single ‘Dissolution’

They have also shared a run of UK headline shows for 2025

Young Knives have announced a new album titled ‘Landfill’, as well as a 2025 UK tour. Find out more below, as well as new single ‘Dissolution’.

Announced today (October 7), the new album will mark the sixth from the band and their first new record since 2020’s ‘Barbarians’.

According to a new press release, the album sees the band contemplating the nature of their existence, and having their vision fixed on how they can best catalogue it through the music.

“It’s a record about letting things go before they are taken from you, including the carefully curated images of ourselves. Embracing everything the world throws at you and not taking it to heart,” explained vocalist Henry Dartnall.

Produced by the band in their Oxfordshire studio and mixed by Mike Lindsay of Tuung, the album is today teased with the lead single ‘Dissolution’. The song has been described as “deep and fun” by the band, and is also inspired by Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy quote: ‘Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so’.”

“I love ideas like this. What an amazing way to present such a deep idea but also make it fun. I just wanted to experiment with doing our version of that. You can’t force ideas on people, you can just suggest them and leave them hanging in a way that people might one day consider if they feel like it,” the frontman added.

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“This song is kind of dumb. The words are about the dissolution of the ego or ego death; a thing that appears in Eastern religions and was written about in Joseph Campbell’s A Hero’s Journey […] The problem is that writing and performing rock music is very much rooted in the world of the ego, so the idea of my big ego mouth shouting words about ego death is ridiculous. But then I thought that contradiction was kind of fun too.”

‘Landfill’ is set for release on January 24. Check out the lead single above, and pre-order the album here.

As well as announcing the new music, Young Knives have also confirmed that they’ll be hitting the road again next year – set to embark on a UK headline tour in early 2025.

The dates commence on January 28 with an opening night at Joiners in Southampton, and continue the following night with a stop at Bristol’s Strange Brew. From there, more stops across the country are planned, including shows in London, Oxford, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, before the dates culminate in Glasgow on February 8.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (October 11) at 10am. Visit here for tickets and find a full list of new tour dates below.

Young Knives’ 2025 UK headline tour dates are:

JANUARY
28 – Joiners, Southampton, UK
29 – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
30 – Underworld, London, UK
31 – The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK

FEBRUARY
1 – Komedia, Brighton, UK
4- Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
5 – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
6 – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
7 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
9 – Hug & Pint, Glasgow, UK

Young Knives’ last studio album arrived in 2020 in the form of ‘Barbarians’. That marked their first since 2013’s ‘Sick Octave’.