The Xcerts announce new album ‘i think i want to go home now.’

After returning earlier this year with their first new music since 2023, The XcertsThe Xcerts have now officially announced details of their forthcoming sixth album, ‘i think i want to go home now.’.

The band - who took to the stage for our March 2026 issue launch last month - have followed up their storming single ‘do it to myself’ with the news that they’ll be releasing their brand new full-length on 10th July via FLG Records. The album was recorded with Hundred Reasons guitarist Larry Hibbitt at his Beehive studio in Hertfordshire - find out more about the process in our recent In The Studio interview here.

Alongside news of their forthcoming record - which follows on from their 2023 effort ‘Learning How To Live And Let Go’, the trio have also shared a fresh preview in the form of thrashing track ‘pretty ugly’. Speaking of their new single, the band’s Murray Macleod has said: “A nod to [the band’s second album] ‘Scatterbrain’ but also heavily inspired by UK post hardcore bands like Kids Near Water and Tribute to Nothing whilst pushing the sound forward. Lyrically, it’s comically brutal. The vocals are borderline incoherent but that was intentional.

“Another emotion I haven’t put in a song for a very long time is anger and at the time I found myself feeling very angry at the world. So this song takes a swipe at people who were criticising the band during a period when my family was going through a lot. The second verse is about my father and what he was going through after his cancer diagnosis. I reference the machinery that cut out my dad’s tumour, the Da Vinci XI, and also Van Gogh. ‘Maybe I’ll splatter my brains against the wall, then you can all dissect the art, I’ll do one better than Van Gogh and cut em both off. 

“The song is heavy in sound and heavy with emotion, so it was important to say something a bit left field because that’s what happens when you’re having an internal meltdown.”

Listen to ‘pretty ugly’ below, and check out their upcoming live schedule - which includes a slot at 2000trees festival, during which they’ll debut their new album in full - underneath the player.