*Something New*, the forthcoming single from London-based Monday’s Monsoon, due on 9th May, is shaping up to be exactly that kind of record.<\/em><\/p> The subject matter is the kind that has fuelled great songs since people first picked up instruments and decided to embarrass themselves in public for the benefit of strangers: the white-knuckled, half-exhilarated business of stumbling into new love after escaping a relationship that left its marks. The band describe it as the story of fearing mistakes before ultimately accepting a new love unconditionally \u2014 warts and all, as they put it, before hastening to clarify that no warts are actually present. That parenthetical is telling. It suggests a band capable of holding tenderness and wry self-awareness in the same hand without dropping either, which is considerably harder than it sounds.<\/p> The influences they cite form a lineage that is demanding rather than fashionable. Elbow’s atmospheric ambition. Fink’s confessional precision. The organic, unhurried storytelling of John Butler. The experimental restlessness that Radiohead mainlined into the bloodstream of a generation of musicians who subsequently spent years trying to metabolise it. These are not names one drops casually, because they constitute a set of standards that cannot be faked. A band that claims this inheritance either earns it or is quietly embarrassed by the comparison. Everything about the production journey of *Something New* suggests Monday’s Monsoon intend to earn it.<\/p> The track was recorded at QUBE Studios and Press Play Studios in London \u2014 rooms the band speak of with the particular warmth of artists who have found spaces where the work feels possible. It was then mixed at RCA Studio B in Nashville, a facility whose history needs no embellishment from anyone: it is simply one of the rooms where modern recorded music found its shape. Final mastering was completed at Metropolis Studios in London, where Elbow \u2014 the band who loom largest in Monday’s Monsoon’s constellation of reference points \u2014 have brought their own records to completion. The choice of rooms is itself a kind of artistic statement: this is a band that understands the relationship between environment and outcome, and has invested accordingly.<\/span><\/p> The string arrangements \u2014 contributed by four collaborators whose presence on the recording has been flagged as central to the track’s identity \u2014 are perhaps the detail that most sharpens anticipation. Strings can ruin a song as readily as they can elevate it. They require a particular kind of compositional honesty: an arranger who knows the difference between ornamentation and structure, between prettiness and depth. Given everything else about this release, the presumption must be that these strings have been deployed with intent.<\/span><\/p> Richard Jupp, who occupied the drum stool for Elbow across the arc of their career and therefore carries some authority on the question of what a well-made song looks like from the inside, has already heard *Something New* and described it as “really well written,” singling out lyrics that are “really sentimental, really intimate.” That is a precise and considered endorsement. Jupp is not reaching for superlatives; he is identifying craft. The distinction matters.<\/span><\/p> Monday’s Monsoon play The Castle in Whitechapel on 22nd May. If *Something New* delivers on the considerable promise of everything surrounding it, that room will feel like the beginning of something.<\/span><\/p> *Something New* is released on 9th May 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/mondaysmonsoon.com\/<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n
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