In keeping with tackling important topics, Manchester five-piece The Guest List today release their bold new single ‘If Ever Your Devil Is Kind’ – taken from their forthcoming debut album Something Real – out August 28th.
A brooding, razor-sharp anthem that channels the tension of modern masculinity, ‘If Ever Your Devil Is Kind’ confronts expectations of what it means to “have it all”. Inspired by frustrations witnessed at a football match, the track explores the loneliness and resentment bred by the pressure placed on men to embody a certain ideal. The single arrives with the same raw emotional intensity that continues to define the band’s rapidly rising sound. Listen here.
It also arrives alongside a striking new music video, directed by Valentina Khodnevich, that mirrors the track’s underlying tension through an abstract concept centred around repetition, release and emotional unraveling.
Decamping to Bergen, Norway, to record with collaborator Matias Tellez, Something Real builds on these foundations and expands them into an emotionally rich debut, tackling everything from mental health, anxiety and male suicide to domestic violence, climate collapse and society’s growing appetite for outrage. Yet it never loses sight of the personal – balancing weighty themes with sharp songwriting, melody, and moments of vulnerability.
After completing some big festival performances already this summer, at Neighbourhood & Isle Of Wight, the band will take on their biggest tour to date for November, which includes a big headline show at London’s Scala, as well as more summer of festival dates including Reading & Leeds, Neighbourhood, Latitude, Tramlines, Victorious, their first ever outing to Japan for Summer Sonic, & a string of EU shows. They also today announce 7 in-store dates in support of the album’s release. (see in full below).
The Guest List continue to take definitive next steps with a collection of songs bound by a shared urgency, to make sense of modern life, to connect, and above all, to say something truly honest.
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