Bugeye are back! After a couple of years away, they have a new single, This Ain’t A Love Song, a new label, a new album planned for 2026, and a tour planned too…

Frighteningly it’s been 5 years since Bugeye’s debut album Ready Steady Bang was one of Louder Than War’s Top 100 albums of 2020. Honestly, where has the time gone? Since then there has been a remix album, Ready Steady Remix, raising funds for The Magpie Project plus singles, 2022’s Signs & Exits and Summer In The City and 2023’s Dancing Out In The Dark.

Whilst they’ve not released anything recently, the band have been keeping busy, not least with members being involved in Croydon’s multi-stage South London indie music festival Cro Cro Land, which this year featured a number of Louder Than War favourites, including Billy Nomates, Loose Articles, Keeley and Benefits to name a few as well as Bugeye themselves. 

If you’re not familiar with the band, they are a queer, electro, art-rock band from the aforementioned London borough, formed in 2018 they describe themselves as sounding like, ‘If Debbie Harry, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, and Keith Moon had been kidnapped by vegan aliens and bred, sometimes being tortured with hot poky things, in the pursuit of the ultimate rock & roll sound’… namely fusing dirty guitars, disco-driven beats, sizzling synths, and explosive bass riffs which then collide into irresistibly catchy hooks— the kind that demand the dancefloor.

Speaking of the new single, singer-songwriter Angela Martin says, “This Ain’t A Love Song is about calling out a narcissist who thinks the world revolves around them. It’s a sharp, sarcastic anti-love anthem that flips the breakup ballad on its head. Instead of longing or heartbreak, it delivers biting humor and raw honesty about dodging a toxic relationship. It is brutal, catchy, and unapologetically savage – it’s the sound of saying what everyone else is too polite to.”

As mentioned, the band have a new label, recently joining Fightmilk, Coming Up Roses and Breakup Haircut on INH Records label (the INH allegedly standing for Insert Name Here), who will release Bugeye’s second album in May 2026. Speaking of the new album, Angela enthuses, “This next chapter is bursting with the best songs we’ve ever written – dark, electronic, raw, and laced with sarcasm and wit. Think of it as a punch in the gut… but in the best possible way. We can’t wait to get it out there.”

Before then though the five-piece supersonic power chord punk mash up of Blondie Vs. Pixies will be on tour during the Winter months