“‘My Oh My’ is a song about hope,” the band say. “We must keep faith, because hope and resilience is what drives change, and we have to hold on to it. It’s about freedom for every country suffering the consequences of hegemony and the greed for power. It’s also about freedom for all animals, and an end to suffering in all its forms.”

For new single ‘My Oh My’ released at a time when the world feels dark and overwhelming, the band wanted to create a video that shows why it’s important to remain hopeful. They state,

“Focusing on the beauty around us can help us feel grounded and reminds us to keep fighting for a better future and that, if we come together, real change is possible.

“With this video we wanted to capture the everyday beauty that surrounds us. Sal has this cool old handheld video camera that she brings with her every time we travel with the band to always filming around . The original idea was to use some of that footage to make the video but unfortunately we realised most of it was lost just a few weeks away from the deadline we had planned, so we had to think of a way to make it happen regardless.

“We filmed most of the main footage in one day, we met and went to all of our favourite spots. We were so lucky, it was a beautiful sunny day after weeks of rain, we ate delicious vegan food in the park and ended the day playing scrabble at the local pub. We had the best time making this happen. Raquel filmed most of the B roll, carrying that little camera around everywhere with her for a few days and trying to capture all the small, beautiful moments we encounter in daily life.

“There are so many little moments that can be easily missed, even simply on our way to and back from work, and it’s often because we’re too busy looking at our phones or caught up in our own thoughts to truly appreciate them. We asked our friend Fernando J Martinez to bring our ideas and vision together, as we loved the work he did on our single Wipe Out, and again he didn’t disappoint!”

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A mini album. 7 songs and 20 minutes of driving rocket fuelled punk meets melody picking up from their debut to go further into their own space. A selection of songs that are marked by a fierce energy, variety and cool musical nous, but always with a message firmly at its core.

New single ‘Glow’ is the second collaboration; this one featuring Dennis Lyxzén from Refused on dual vocal duties. A no brainer it seems …The band comment, “This track is about denouncing gender roles and respecting gender identity. Self-liberation, embracing femininity and fighting internal misogyny. Feminine isn’t weak, and masculine doesn’t have to be stereotypically strong.

“It doesn’t matter if you want to express strength in a more masculine or feminine way, anything is valid as long as you feel powerful from within. When we wrote this song we knew who we wanted to have a feature on it and we were just back from opening two shows for punk legends Refused and all of us were mesmerised by Dennis Lyxzén’s stage presence.

“Refused has been a band that never wanted to fit in in a specific sound, they are pioneers of experimental punk while still being rooted in hardcore. They believe in what we believe in, antifascism, veganism, social justice and Dennis on stage is anything but a generic hardcore singer. He jumps, he twirls, he dances, he dresses fancy and we knew from minute one he was the one. Of course, we had no certainty he would’ve said yes but we had to try. He accepted straight away and has been super supportive and collaborative of the coming of GLOW. We couldn’t be more grateful.”

The video for ‘Glow’ was filmed in a local gym in Deptford called “Comando Temple” who kindly provided the band with the space. The amazing Pride in Strength group allowed the band to film them during one of their workshops and four wrestlers from the queer wrestling company Fist Club also took time to come over and film some awesome scenes and even taught the band to wrestle.

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New single ’Smug’ is, according to the band “about the hierarchy of the music scene and how important it is to go back to your roots and never forget where you came from/started. For this reason in the video we wanted to highlight our little community and our favourite spots in SE London.”

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