South London four-piece Red Ivory have announced details of a new EP, Please Leave, I Need To Wake Up Now, to be self-released on November 28. Along with the announcement, they have shared a first single and confirmed a show at London’s Brixton Windmill for October 5.

The band – Eiliyah, Berry, Frida and Ivy – formed in autumn 2021 as four fourteen-year-olds in their secondary school music rooms. The tracks within this EP follow their growth, evolution, and development over three years of dramatic changes to environments, influences, and experiences. Over the past four years they have been consistently building both their repertoire and live presence, writing all their music collaboratively so that it reflects each of their styles, influences, perspectives, and experiences. Please Leave, I Need To Wake Up Now comes as a product of these four years. With the five tracks being written between autumn 2021 and spring 2024, the EP is charged with the changes the band underwent as they wrote it – themes such as uncertainty and disappointment, exploring a complex relationship with change, and feeling powerless in the face of these forces.

Now they share a first look at the EP with single ‘Crashing Down.’ The track explores themes of self-destruction, written about the heightened and all-consuming anxieties that come with being under the influence. The sentiment is channelled through the track’s foreboding and tightly wound instrumentation – claustrophobic and at points almost static,  before freeway-falling into a frenzy of interlocking, distorted guitar, howling vocals, and thrashing cymbals. The addition of clarinet from bassist Berry lends a rich, sombre tone.