United Fruit take the throne with their ‘Nightmare, Recovery’ EP

There’s more to timeless punk than fuzz and fury. It’s a feeling, a movement, captured in sound. The Hold Steady had it in spades; recently Beach Slang have picked up the baton. United Fruit are next for the throne.

Their new ‘Nightmare, Recovery’ EP - streaming in full below, exclusively on DIY - is a flawless exercise in soaring, anthemic punk-rock. Rushing forward and staking a claim for arena stages, there’s an urgency in every step. “We wanted to make a more upfront sounding record than we had before,” admits guitarist Stuart Galbraith, and there’s no doubting they’ve succeeded. Four long years after their underground hit of a debut album, ‘Fault Lines’, they’re back - three tracks of flawless, impassioned, life-affirming and utterly unashamed rock, it’s a massive next step.

Stream ‘Nightmare, Recovery’ below in full. This Saturday (14th November) sees them celebrate the record’s release with a show at the appropriately named Hug & Pint in Glasgow.