False Heads

East London rock trio FALSE HEADS are proud to announce their return with new EP Cracked, set for release on 28th March 2025 via No Fret Records.

To celebrate the news the band are streaming new single ‘Cracked’, released 17th January 2025 on all good digital service providers.

A glimpse of what fans can expect from their third album, the preceding Cracked EP comes following a tough few years for the resourceful and indefatigable band in an industry which they say is “increasingly built for nepo babies and people with millionaire parents”. Raised in working-class families, they are finding it harder and harder to relate to “a changing industry where the gatekeepers seem to be increasingly upper-middle class”.

Formed in 2015, False Heads released their critically-acclaimed debut album, It’s All There But You’re Dreaming, in 2020 quickly racking up millions of streams, picking up a wide range of editorial playlist support at Spotify, Amazon, Apple and YouTube.

Their second album Sick Moon (produced by Frank Turner) was released in 2022 and stormed into the UK Official Album Charts, landing a coveted spot within the Top 40 in the Album Sales Chart and #2 in the Independent Album Breakers Chart.

Following a mini-hiatus to right their ship after the release of Sick Moon (Scruff Of The Neck), they now return with a re-energized batch of songs recorded with legendary producer Adrian Bushby (Muse, Foo Fighters, U2, Placebo).

Commenting on the lead single, front man Luke Griffiths says: “‘Cracked’ is about an encounter with a certain type of person you often get growing up in and around East London and Essex. Feral, spitting, and would glass you over a wrong look—a spiv. I come from a bit of a weird world where my grandad and some of my extended family were East End villains and armed robbers, but I was lucky that my dad earned enough to get me out of that, to the point where I could go to University, which was unthinkable for my parents.”

“I've seen firsthand the trauma that real violence, which society likes to romanticise, causes to people like my dad and family. ‘Cracked’ is about my disdain for the people that want to use violence at the drop of a hat and glamourise that world, when the reality was brutality. There's also a rage at the sort of people you'd meet at University and within the music industry that can't fathom that such a world really exists for the working classes. So I suppose that really it's a song about me being full of rage whilst trying to moan about people that use rage, making me a total hypocrite. This is a recurring theme on the EP, and will be on the album that follows.”

Across the forthcoming new EP, lyrics deal with the increasingly bizarre modern world in which we find ourselves—filled with rage, isolation, misery, grifters and pointless fame. As he grappled with the future direction of the band, Griffiths began to delve deep into his family's history in the East End, where real violence was at stake, and eventually wrote a TV show with his cousin about their experiences which is beginning development in 2025.

“Violence has real world consequences of deep trauma and shouldn't be frivolously glamorised,” says Griffiths. “At the same time, there's been a total removal of the working class from mainstream cultural left-wing politics which has allowed very nasty people to monopolise the vacuum. I think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.”

After having their music featured on BT TV’s playlist, Soccer AM, not to mention constant radio support from Jack Saunders (BBC R1), Rodney Bingenheimer (Sirius XM), Steve Lamacq (BBC 6 Music), Gordon Smart (Radio X), John Kennedy (Radio X) and Huw Stephens (BBC R1) to name a few, False Heads’ reputation is picking up more pace than ever, with support from some of the biggest names in the business. The band has attracted a legion of devoted fans, including rock royalty like Simon Le Bon and Iggy Pop, legendary manager Danny Fields, and iconic Bangles guitarist Vicki Peterson.

Playing alongside the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age, The Libertines, David Byrne, Band Of Skulls, Frank Turner and ‘A’ is now something of the norm for False Heads, and their live show is a legendary spectacle—a whirlwind of sweat, mosh pits, and unbridled joy. Having cut their teeth on the grimy underbelly of the UK club scene, the band's stage presence is electrifying, a potent mix of punk-rock fury and post-punk swagger.