BASEMENT Share New Song “The Way I Feel” – First New Album In Over Eight Years "WIRED" To Be Released May 8th via Run For Cover Records

British alternative rock mainstays Basement have shared another new track off their anticipated new album WIRED. “I Want You To Feel,” leans into producer John Congleton’s lively, unpolished production style and features an anthemic chorus - sonically transporting you to a joyous, sweaty venue floor. WIRED, out May 8th, marks Basement’s first new album in eight years as well as a reunion with their original label Run For Cover Records.

About the song, vocalist Andrew Fisher says, “‘The Way I Feel’ is about standing on the edge of a really important decision, right before you make it. Constantly questioning whether you have the courage to stand up for yourself and fight your side, while at the same time begging for forgiveness and acknowledgement. My tongue is in my cheek quite a lot in this song - you need to decide when I’m saying what I mean or not.I love the simplicity of this song and I love that the intro is the same audio sample that Al made on his loop pedal. I knew from the first time he sent that audio file that this would be a song.” Listen to “I Way I Feel” here and watch the video, directed by Kaylinn Duffy, below!

Across WIRED’s 12 tracks fans will hear a return to the unbridled passion and creative intuition that's always animated their best material. The band previously shared “WIRED” and “Broken By Design” and Consequence noted, “Basement’s two glimpses of what to expect on WIRED have been released: the title track and “Broken By Design.” On the former, a towering hook and urgent guitars channel the energy that Basement have made an epic career out of. The latter finds Basement leaping in the opposite direction for a moodier, more gentle tune. Equally as captivating, but for different reasons." watch the videos for both below, with “WIRED” directed by Ashley Rommelrath and “Broken By Design” by Tas Wilson.

"WIRED" Tracklist:

1. Time Waster 

2. WIRED 

3. Deadweight 

4. Broken By Design 

5. Pick Up The Pieces 

6. Embrace 

7. Sever 

8. The Way I Feel 

9. Satisfy 

10. Head Alight 

11. Longshot 

12. Summer’s End

This summer Basement will embark on a European tour followed by an appearance at London’s All Points East Festival in August. All shows are listed below with North American dates to be announced soon.

Basement — vocalist Andrew Fisher, guitarists Alex Henery and Ronan Crix, bassist Duncan Stewart, and drummer James Fisher — were adamant that Wired had to be their most decisive artistic statement yet. A bold musical swing that people will either love or hate, but that absolutely can’t elicit a muted reaction from their fans. The group spent years writing and refining the 12 no-bloat songs, working closer and communicating better than ever while building out the tracklist as a group in various studios long before they began recording. Therefore, the songs were fully-formed by the time they hit the studio with powerhouse producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Mannequin Pussy), who helped the band manifest the heightened version of Basement that they’d always dreamt of. Imperfections were celebrated, each member’s ideas were incorporated, and Congleton ensured that every moment on Wired sounds both precise and enervated.

"I never thought Basement could sound like this," says guitarist Alex Henery. "But in my head, it's what I've always wanted Basement to sound like."

Every time Basement take a break, their band gets bigger. The quintet’s 2011 debut, I Wish You Could Stay Here, gave them a foothold in the post-hardcore groundswell of the early 2010s, but Basement had already decided to call it quits before their far more evolved follow-up, Colourmeinkindness, had even hit the shelves. Upon disbanding in late 2012 so vocalist Fisher could get his teaching degree, Basement’s underground following ballooned in their absence, and when they eventually reformed in 2014, they were welcomed back as mainstays of the scene.

Basement charged forward with two more LPs, 2016’s snappier Promise Everything and 2018’s sleeker Beside Myself, but after the latter record, which was released on a major label, Basement knew they needed to take a year off to recalibrate. “We were all left with a really weird, sour taste in our mouth after signing to a major label and having all these people control things,” Fisher admits. During their COVID-era hiatus, each member questioned whether the band should even continue as they spent time pursuing their own creative outlets. It was a period of serious existential reflection for the guys in Basement, and at one point, Henery considered stepping away from the band altogether before Fisher intervened, knowing that everyone in Basement needed the band to persevere. ”Alex saying that he was ready to cut the cord was what I needed to be like ‘Nope, we cannot do that,’” Fisher says.

After some deep conversations that reaffirmed their creative alliance, Henery and Fisher reconvened to begin writing again with no label pressures and no strings attached. Instantly, the seeds of Wired began to take shape, and soon enough, the whole band knew they had something special in the works. Coincidentally, not long after Basement began properly sculpting LP5, the Colourmeinkindness song “Covet” caught wind on TikTok and swiftly became a viral hit, earning a Gold certification in 2024 -- 12 years after its release -- and introducing Basement’s music to a whole new generation of internet-savvy fans.

Once again, Basement find themselves re-emerging with new music bigger and more beloved than ever before.