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Oct 23, 2025 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Eddie Whelan

Tomorrow, UK post punk trio Dancehall is back with their sophomore album, 100% Music, their first full-length release since their 2018 debut, The Band. In the years since, the band shared their 2020 EP, Remote Summer, before returning with a handful of new singles, teasing the new record and deploying the band’s scrappy, tightly-wound energy with newfound precision.

Although the band’s first effort captured the fuzzy DIY feel of their live performances, their latest record sees them honing their spiky songwriting and infectious guitar hooks to a serrated edge, upping the production detail while retaining their propulsive aesthetics. They brought on production from their longtime collaborator Christopher Smith and mixing from Hank Sullivant (MGMT). “It went from sounding like a live band to full-blown technicolour,” says guitarist Craig Sharp. “We wanted it to sound ‘full’. Neon-bright. Playful. Weird, but approachable,” they say.

Today, ahead of the album’s full release, Dancehall is sharing an early listen to one of the record’s remaining highlights, “Something,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“Something” is a relentless blast of energy, capturing the band at their most nerve-fried and anxious. It is both the shortest and most restless of the record’s singles, careening forward atop an infectious descending bassline and crackling, elliptical guitar riff. It comes off like an itchy, needling high, complete with a ranting mid-song breakdown and a pounding climax. Meanwhile, singer and bassist Tim Smithen captures that same combination of frustration and exhausted malaise in his lyrics: “My brains are bad / It’s full of mice / I sleep on floors / It’s not that great / I got a friend / He comes at night / He buys me drinks out / It’s not that great / I want something, I want something.”

The band says of the track, “‘Something’ is about the time when I lived somewhere in darkest east London in a flat that looked like a shop-front and the band’s ego was in carnival mode. But at the same time it was honest, dumb, real and that’s what made it fun: cheap canned beer, endless tubes, flared nostrils, smelling of last week, not sleeping, writing music, listening to the same 3 songs over and over and over and over, bedroom punks, WhatsApp group on fire, fast food, fear of others. Feeling empty but alive…”

Check out the song below. 100% Music is out on October 24th via Vibe/Anti-Vibe.