Afterbloom embrace nonchalance on debut ‘Duh’ single

Every weekday, DIY’s new music know-it-all Neu brings you one essential new release to get obsessed with. Today’s Neu Pick comes from Afterbloom.

Heavy as a brick, Afterbloom pull no punches on their debut single ‘Duh’.

Rubber-band basslines grab things by the gut, the Telford grunge troop’s quivering melodies forcing their way through the clouds and muck. It all builds towards a stadium-sized eruption of colour, mind, proving there’s more to this lot than pedalboards and petulance. That conclusion finding the whole group bawling ‘yeah’ over and over at the top of their lungs, it’s a snotty cut of youthful exuberance, perfectly primed for the incoming summer.

Produced and recorded by Michael Smith (who’s worked with the likes of some band called Wolf Alice), ‘Duh’ marks Afterbloom’s first ‘proper’ single, following the lead of a handful of attention-grabbing demos. Get the first spin of it below.