Basement drop final 'WIRED' teaser 'Head Alight' • News • DIY Magazine

Ahead of the arrival of their next LP - and first in eight years! - Basement have shared one final preview of what to expect in the form of new single ‘Head Alight’.

It follows recent cuts ‘Broken By Design’, ‘The Way I Feel’, and the record’s title track - ‘WIRED’ - to be the fourth song lifted from the album, and sees the band lean into heady, hooky territory that vocalist Andrew Fisher has described as “ethereal”.

Noting that the single originally “started out as a love song”, Fisher explains that his bandmates “saw it less in a romantic way” and more as “a more universal look at the idea of someone’s soul or essence being so powerful and beautiful you can’t look away. This really excited me because it allowed me to get out of my head and focus on something way more abstract and therefore, hopefully more expansive.”

Recorded with producer John Congleton (Death Cab for Cutie, Wallows, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten), ‘WIRED’ will be Basement’s first album since 2018’s ‘Beside Myself’, and has also seen them reunite with their original label, Run For Cover Records.

What’s more, the band are making a mighty return to the live circuit this summer too, with performances booked in for both the Manchester and London editions of Outbreak Festival.

Find out more about Basement’s upcoming live dates and check out ‘Head Alight’ for yourself below.

‘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

There’s plenty of opportunity to catch Basement live this summer, too - the band have lined up a UK headline tour for May, before heading on to play venues across Europe with Glare and Fiddlehead. Find their full live schedule here:

MAY 2026
07 Brighton, Chalk
08 London, 26 Leake St (sold out)
09 Leeds, Boom (sold out)
10 Manchester, Projekts (sold out)
11 Glasgow, Mono (sold out)
12 Nottingham, Rough Trade (Acoustic) (sold out)
13 Bristol, The Fleece (sold out)
14 Kingston, The Fighting Cocks + Banquet (sold out)

JUNE 2026
05 Rock Am Ring, Nürburg (sold out)
06 Rock im Park, Nuremberg
08 Loppen, Copenhagen (with Glare)
09 Kollektivet Livet, Stockholm (with Glare)
14 TAMA, Poznań (with Glare)
15 Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (with Glare)
17 zakk, Düsseldorf (with Glare)
19 Hurricane Festival, Scheeßel
20 Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck
21 Farewell Youth Fest 2, Dresden
23 Magazzini Generali, Milan (with Fiddlehead)
24 Dynamo Zürich (Dynamo), Zürich (with Fiddlehead)
25 Jera on Air, Ysselsteyn, Limburg
26 Mia Mao, Paris (with Fiddlehead)
28 Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Manchester (Outbreak Festival headline)

AUGUST 2026
23 Victoria Park, London (All Points East)

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