Sunderland’s rising art-pop renegades Swindled complete their genre-blurring third EP What A Nightmare! with the release of ‘The Hangover’, a ferocious, overdriven and infectious banger, out now on all digital platforms.
The full What A Nightmare! EP features four bold and diverse tracks – Dear Past Life, Cosmic Immigrants, Withdrawal Symptoms, and The Hangover – each weaving into a conceptually rich and sonically adventurous body of work.
Recorded at Blast Studios, the band embraced a new level of maturity and creativity during the process. “I feel like What A Nightmare! is like the mature older brother of Counting Sheep,” says frontman Jonny Swindle. “The songs just felt right. They felt like Swindled. My writing got more intricate but still came naturally. If you don’t believe your latest work is your best, then what’s the point?”
Continuing their dream-and-sleep motif, Swindled crafted a series of artistic teasers that told a story across each release – building anticipation and narrative intrigue leading up to the full EP. What A Nightmare! is their boldest, most polished, and most ambitious release to date – a masterstroke of emotional depth and experimental polish.
This final release caps off what has been an incredible summer for the band, with explosive festival performances at Kendal Calling and Lindisfarne Festival, sharing the bill with The Prodigy, Travis, and Fatboy Slim. Their shimmering single Withdrawal Symptoms already set dance floors alight in June, blending club-ready grooves with art-pop emotionality – and The Hangover takes things one step further, kicking the doors off with an adrenaline shot of energy and lyrical bite.
And it doesn’t stop there.
Swindled return to their hometown for a very special Halloween-season with a sold out headline show at Pop Recs Ltd, Sunderland on Saturday, October 25th, with support from Leazes and Bogus. Expect theatrics, choreography, and some serious sonic mischief. Before then, the band will also perform at The Gathering Sounds Festival in Stockton on Saturday 27th September alongside Somebody’s Child, The Covasettes, Brògeal, Grandmas House and Sunbeam.
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