The Cribs share sun-soaked video for final album preview ‘Never The Same’

The Cribs have kick-started the new year by offering up one final teaser of their forthcoming album ‘Selling A Vibe’, which is due out this Friday (9th January) via Play It Again Sam. 

Giving us a much needed injection of sunny nostalgia, new single ‘Never The Same’ follows recent cuts ‘Summer Seizures’ and ‘A Point Too Hard To Make’ to be the third track lifted from the record, and is what guitarist and vocalist Ryan Jarman has termed “a throwback to our original approach”. 

Continuing, he has described it as “streamlined” and “stylish”, explaining that “it’s almost a little paradoxical as lyrically it’s about feeling like a different person at this point in life, and missing the chaos of your previous existence, even if it wouldn’t make sense anymore.”

Though it arrives with all the hallmarks of a classic Cribs number, ‘Never The Same’ was in fact originally penned for none other than One Direction member turned soloist Louis Tomlinson, after the Jarman brothers played his Away From Home festival in Italy. Bassist and vocalist Gary notes that “we had been talking with Louis’ manager about maybe writing and/or producing some tracks for his next LP, so upon our return to Wakefield we got to work and banged this out, fully formed, in a couple of hours. 

“And then we became attached to it and decided to keep it for ourselves! I think that the freedom of conceiving it for someone else just meant that we didn’t overthink anything, and just got straight to the point - it came together fast. So yeah, in an alternate timeline it could’ve been a Louis song.”

Check out the band-directed video for ‘Never The Same’ here: