Release Date: 10-07-2026
Genre: Rock
TRACKLIST
1. do it to myself
2. wow
3. sinking feeling
4. bury you
5. rinse repeat
6. pretty ugly
7. dream you in
8. losing it
9. breathe in what was
10. in your eyes
LINEUP
Murray Macleod - vocals and guitar
Jordan Smith - bass
Tom Heron - drums
Brighton-based, Aberdeen-originating The XCERTS today announce their much-anticipated new album, i think i want to go home now., out 10th July via FLG Records.
An undoubted career highlight long-player, the remarkably consistent and immediate songs on i think i want to go home now. are sonic manifestations of the mutual support and friendship that carried the band through a particularly turbulent period, including Smith’s mother passing away and Macleod’s dad facing a cancer scare.
The new album also sees the band reconnecting with the raw urgency that defined early releases In The Cold Wind We Smile, Scatterbrain and There Is Only You. Intriguingly, there are a number of stark similarities to that very first record. Smith had lost his father before they made that one, and Macleod had gone through a devastating break-up. To say that history has repeated itself would undermine the emotional gravitas of these latest life experiences, but the band found it hard not to draw comparisons between then and now.
Alongside the album announcement, the band also share news that they will perform a full run-through of i think i want to go home now. at their 2000 Trees Festival set, a festival and community they have returned to numerous times over the past 20 years and which has become something of a spiritual home for the band. In addition, they will appear at Arbroath Festival and embark on a run of dates with old friends Twin Atlantic in June. A full list of live dates can be found below.
“It was really time for us to band together and celebrate our friendship,” says Macleod, speaking further on the album. “We're so proud that we're still doing this, because we started the band 23 years ago. It’s astonishing really. This really is the purest Xcerts record there's been since the first one. We dug really deep to discover what the defining sound of our band is and bled it all out”.
The power and strength of The XCERTS, both musically and personally, in the face of adversity is once again abundantly clear.
