Sugar Horse announce new album ‘Not A Sound In Heaven’

February 14, 2026 James Weaver

SUGAR HORSE have announced their brand new album, Not A Sound In Heaven!

Set for release on April 10th, 2026 via Fat Dracula Records, the record marks the Bristol experimental band’s third full‑length (the follow-up to 2024’s The Grand Scheme Of Things) and follows their recent standalone AA single What’s Your ETA? Let’s Have A Tear Up / Would You Like Me To Be The Cat?, continuing their boundary‑pushing approach to heavy, politically charged songwriting.

Discussing the record’s themes more broadly, frontman Ash Tubb shares, “ever since I was born I can remember visions of war, famine, and death being beamed directly into my living room via the magic of television. These visions were accompanied by newsreader narratives designed to either humanise or dehumanise the people involved. We humanise our government’s allies and dehumanise their enemies. This is taken as common sense, or even wisdom to some degree. People watch the news and accept it as fact, simple and true.

As a person gets older they move in one of three different directions with this acceptance of reality; They embrace what they’re being told, they fall into a kind of trust free nihilism or they learn that there are deeper narratives at play. Not A Sound In Heaven is an aged acceptance of the latter. An acceptance of sitting at the centre of a global empire of both military and economic dimensions. An acceptance that the stories we’re told as a nation, or what’s generally in the zeitgeist, isn’t necessarily reality itself.

How does a person cope with the weight – and, frankly, the guilt – of a society that perpetuates such distinct inequalities? A society that thinks a bit of killing abroad is fine, as long as it improves the lives of people at home. You can see why so many choose to embrace it. Hell, nihilism seems pretty sensible. Once a person decides upon pursuing a degree of truth however, things get a bit depressing. Beyond depressing…maddening. This album explores this kind of breezy, frivolous subject matter in a manner that will no doubt be uplifting to the listener and massively financially rewarding for the artist.”

Alongside the announcement, SUGAR HORSE have released the album’s lead single, Secret Speech. Speaking about the lyrical themes behind the track, Tubb states, “we are fortunate enough to live in what is generally known as ‘The West’. I say fortunate with gritted teeth, because I know—as I’m sure the reader knows—that living in the West isn’t always rosy. The vast majority of people struggle everyday to feed, clothe and house themselves. Let alone receive adequate healthcare, schooling and workers’ rights.

We are, however, where all the world’s wealth is hoarded. We are at the centre of Empire. The people outside of this empire—those of the Global South—have had their resources extracted and their populations exploited by our own governments, with very little given back in return. This won’t go on forever. It will inevitably end, as all great empires do. We in The West have a choice to make in the meantime; either help create a new, fairer world, or let the greed of our ruling classes become the undoing of all of us.”

Watch the official music video for Secret Speech here:

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

Track List:

Fire Graphics
Secret Speech
Ex-Human Shield
History’s Biggest T-Shirts
Not A Sound In Heaven
Company Town
You Can’t Say Dallas Doesn’t Love You

And that’s not all from SUGAR HORSE! The band have also announced a run of April 2026 UK headline shows in support of the record, as well as an appearance at StrangeForms Festival.

Tour dates are as follows:

14/04 – Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach
15/04 – Manchester – Star & Garter
16/04 – Glasgow – Nice ’n’ Sleazy
17/04 – Nottingham – The Old Bus Depot
18/04 – London – The Black Heart
19/04 – Leeds – StrangeForms Festival