After a year of tearing up festivals and breaking boundaries, unpeople today unleash their widely-anticipated, riff-laden debut album we are unpeople - out now on SharpTone Records.
A seamless ability to connect and conjure communal spirit, sits at the very heart of the record. Built upon massive choruses, four-part vocal harmonies and unabated heaviness, it captures a band whose ambition is matched by their belief in the power of music to unite people.
With stadium-busting choruses, to 00’s Reuben-esque mega riffs and the stunningly unpredictable eccentricity of System Of A Down, the album is colourful and joyous, yet aggressive and intense, having already spawned top-class singles in ‘blueprints’. ‘friends’, ‘clouds’, ‘the garden’ & ‘waste’. Today also sees the release of a special fan/lyric video for new track ‘haunted’ - watch here.
we are unpeople has received an overwhelmingly positive response, with the band now emerging as one of the country’s most exciting new alternative acts. Praising both their identity and ambition, Rolling Stone UK highlighted their “colourful and creative aesthetic” and “huge tunes”, while Kerrang! featured them on the cover, declaring them “Britain’s best new band”.
Rock Sound also featured the band on the cover, labelling the album as “built on four-voice choruses, earworm hooks, blistering riffs and a steadfast refusal to sit still”. It’s also attracted significant praise and support from BBC Radio 1, The Independent, HMV and more, with Official Charts labelling them quite simply as “THE alternative rock band breaking the UK right now”.
The 4-piece have also had their say. “It’s so difficult to sum up the journey to this point, but we couldn’t be more proud of this album. We hope all the unpeople out there can hear and feel the time and effort we put into making these songs the best they possibly could be. we are unpeople. you are unpeople. we are all unpeople.”
Comprised of Jake Crawford, Luke Caley, Em Lodge & Richard Rayner, unpeople have earned themselves a reputation for creating music that feels equally at home on the biggest rock stages and the heaviest festival bills - having fittingly been described as the lightest band at Bloodstock, and the heaviest band at Kendal Calling - finding themselves equally at home in both settings. They've opened for Metallica in Vienna, shared bills with Smashing Pumpkins and Coheed & Cambria & drawn huge crowds at 2000trees.
Currently on the road with Don Broco, the band are also gearing up for a UK support tour with Royal Blood at the end of November. January 2027 will see them take things to the next level on their biggest UK headline tour to date, with most dates selling out almost as soon as they went on sale. The momentum continues into February, as unpeople announce a nine-date European headline tour, taking their explosive live show to fans across Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy and France.
we are unpeople.
you are unpeople.
we are all unpeople.
"we are unpeople" tracklisting:
1. clouds
2. friends
3. the garden
4. swallow
5. bottle it
6. blueprints
7. haunted
8. waste
9. look up
10. kangareuben
11. smother
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