Beach Riot

Brighton fuzz pop band BEACH RIOT are pleased to reveal their new single ‘Meltdown’, set for release on 10th December 2024 via Alcopop! Records. 

The track is the first new material from the band since their 2023 stand-alone singles ‘Tramlines’ and ‘Tell Me I’m Wrong’.

Commenting on the new single, the band said: “We’re sorry we’ve been quiet for a while, but hey…life gets in the way sometimes. For your listening pleasure, we present to you: MELTDOWN. Out now on the ever incredible Alcopop! Records. Thank you so much to everyone who still listens and turns us up loud. It means the world to us. We may be a bit quiet again, we may not…let’s see. We don’t see this as the end, it’s merely just a little pause for now. See you in the pit. Rory, Cami, Jonny xx”

BEACH RIOT released their raucous debut album Subatomic Party Cool on Alcopop! Records in 2021. Recorded in 2020 and produced by Ally Jowett at his home studio in Brighton, the resulting collection of fuzz-drenched power pop was showered with praise from Kerrang! Magazine, CLASH, MOJO, The iNewspaper, Louder Than War and LOUDER.

A string of incendiary singles from the record saw the band steadily building momentum throughout the campaign, picking up new radio champions in BBC Radio One’s Jack Saunders and BBC 6music’s Tom Robinson, and crashing onto Spotify UK’s New Music Friday, Noisy, Alternative Noise, The Rock List, All New Rock, Top of The Rock, New Noise, Shockwave, and Fresh Finds Rock playlists to name a few.

The band’s radio support has also been bolstered by a #12 spot on the Amazing Radio Chart, New Rock Show playlist support from Wyatt Wendels at Planet Rock, an evening playlist addition from XS Manchester, plus key radio spins from Huw Stephens and Daniel P Carter at BBC Radio One, John Kennedy at Radio X, BBC Scotland’s Vic Galloway, Total Rock, legendary US station KEXP, and BBC introducing.

Having previously played Reading & Leeds Festival, Truck Festival, The Great Escape and more, the band embarked on a run of German tour dates with Berlin power trio PABST in 2022, spending 2023 appearing on the main stage at 2000 Trees Festival and on a run of EU tour dates alongside German punks Itchy.

New single 'Meltdown' is released 10th December 2024 via Alcopop! Records