Neck Deep released a brand new music video for their punchy, upbeat track “Sort Yourself Out” off their self-titled album, Neck Deep, which came out earlier this year via Hopeless Records.
This news follows their recent announcement of a sideshow to kick off the When We Were Young festival on Friday, October 18, at Area15 Las Vegas. The Home Team and Super American will support them at this show.
They also announced today that their Dumbstruck Dumbf**k headlining tour will be heading to the UK and kick off in January 2025. The seven-date run kicks off in Birmingham at the O2 Academy before shows in Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Nottingham, and Bristol, culminating in a show at the Swansea Arena.
Speaking of the tour, frontman Ben Barlow says, “We’re stoked to be back in the UK. It seems we’re always everywhere else, all the time – but when we do come back home, we go big. Having The Wonder Years out is always fun, they’ve been a big inspiration to us over the years, with so many great songs they always put on an amazing show. One Step Closer are a band we’ve been following closely for a few years, they’re deservedly growing a lot right now and it’s been cool to see the progression. I’m excited to see how they go down with our fans because we love them.”
A complete list of upcoming show dates can be found on their website. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at www.neckdeepuk.com/tour.
Featuring previous singles “We Need More Bricks,” “It Won’t Be Like This Forever,” and “Take Me With You,” their latest self-titled album encompasses everything Neck Deep have excelled at across their career, enhanced and dialed to eleven. From the bouncing bombast of “Dumbstruck, Dumbf**k” and the ripping intensity of “Sort Yourself Out,” to the poetic introspection of “They May Not Mean To (But They Do),” Neck Deep is an album that boasts a song for almost any occasion (including, in “Take Me With You”, the impending alien invasion). Neck Deep has been recognized by NPR, Rolling Stone, Grammy.com, Alternative Press, The Noise, New Noise Magazine, SPIN, and other notable outlets.
Neck Deep is available to buy and stream now at https://ffm.to/neckdeep.
In the little over a decade since Neck Deep formed in the Barlow brothers’ spare room in Wrexham, Wales, a lot has changed. From the scrappy, naively hopeful beginnings that define the starting of so many teenage bands, the pop-punks have gone on to be one of British Rock music’s most successful global exports in recent memory: top 5 records in both the US and UK, global touring, viral hits and over a billion streams just some of the fruits of ten years spent mastering their craft.
But now, with their fifth, self-titled LP, there’s an acknowledgement that the more things change, the more – in some ways at least – they stay the same.
“This album is the sound of us knowing ourselves and knowing our ability,” explains Barlow. “It’s unapologetically us. We’re professional songwriters now and we’ve really honed in on what we’re good at – but it’s also about having fun and enjoying writing these tracks. And there are those little sonic signatures in the mix that even I can’t really put my finger on that just make it Neck Deep. It happens when we get in a room together and it clicks – it’s us just doing our thing like we always have.”
For this record, the band, completed by Ben’s older brother and bassist Seb, guitarists Matt West and Sam Bowden and drummer Matt Powles, took ‘doing their own thing’ – and only their own thing – to the next level. Eschewing a keen list of collaborators and producers eager to work with one of rock’s hottest properties and choosing, instead, to write and record in their own warehouse space, mere miles from where they grew up. Old school, just like it used to be.