Other Half announce new album ‘Dark Ageism’

OTHER HALF have announced a new album!

Titled Dark Ageism, the upcoming album from the Norwich-based post-hardcore band is the follow-up to 2022’s Soft Action, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Big Scary Monsters.

The upcoming album was recorded by Owen Turner at Sickroom Studio [GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS, MAGOO], and mixed and mastered by Tom Hill at the Bookhouse [JOHN, GENN]. The album features guest vocals by people the band considers truly formative to what they do, with the aforementioned Matthew Caws of NADA SURF/MINOR ALPS and Alexei Berrow of JOHNNY FOREIGNER both lending their voices to characters across the record.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, OTHER HALF have released a new song from the upcoming album; Lifted Fingers. The new song features a guest appearance from Matthew Caws of NADA SURF/MINOR ALPS.

Speaking about the new song, vocalist Cal says, “NADA SURF are one of our collective all-timers, and really formative to the music we play, so it means the absolute world that he also contributed some guest vocals here on Lifted Fingers, being the positive retort to all the doom-mongering I do in the first half of the song. I think at its heart, it’s a hopeful song, about finding connection amongst all the sludge. In Matthew’s own words, ‘people make stuff, you make your own stuff, and then sometimes you make stuff together. Here’s to making stuff.

Lifted Fingers came about after a pretty hefty stint of listening to BLUR; Soapy went to some of the reunion shows and it was near-impossible to escape Damon’s mockney lilt for a while before and after. Luckily, BLUR are brilliant, especially I think some of the more Graham Coxon-heavy songs, so I sat about trying to write something like You’re So Great. We’d also been hammering a lot of MARTIN NEWELL/CLEANERS FROM VENUS and PAVEMENT at the time, so I think the sickly-sweet stench of melody kept threatening to permeate our usually tuneless songwriting. In the end, Lifted Fingers became something I’d always dreamt of writing; a dark, spindly pop song that still sounds exactly like OTHER HALF.”

Listen to Lifted Fingers here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Lifted Fingers
2. Strange Loop
3. Sucked It Sore
4. Lowlifes & Lower
5. Feeling For Yourself
6. Farm Games
7. Bumps In The Night
8. Dollar Sign Eyes
9. Rotator
10. A Little Less Than Evil
11. Pastoral Existence
12. Other Half Vs. The End of Everything

Dark Ageism is set for release on June 21st via Big Scary Monsters. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on OTHER HALF like their official page on Facebook.