Coach Party Announce Sophomore Album Caramel

British rock four-piece Coach Party just announced the upcoming release of their second album. The band’s first piece of music since their 2023 album KILLJOY, which Paste contributor Miranda Wollen wrote was “painfully intimate and raucously human; a fall down the rabbit hole of the dissatisfied mind.” Caramel will arrive on September 26 via Chess Club Records. The project is entirely self-produced and explores the band’s shared experiences of isolation in the digital age, and the friends that pull you out of the disorientation. With a focus on overcoming hard times, the album is a celebration of the shared human experience.

In anticipation of the record the rock outfit released their searing new single “GIRLS!” A focal point of the record, the song touches on the album’s central themes of community told through a driving collection of rhythmic drums and gritty guitar. Frontwoman Jess Eastwood sings, “Where are my girls?” in a call-and-response chorus framed by an addictive interplay of bass, grungy guitar, and drums. “It’s a mosh-inciting, live hype song along the lines of ‘For the next 3 minutes, whoever you are, you’re all my girls and you’re all gonna fucking mosh,’” Eastwood said in a press release. “When it’s over, you can go back to being whoever you usually are—but for right now, let loose and have fun.”

From the band’s rural hometown in the Isle of Wight and beyond, the band is slowly becoming known for their cathartic rock intensity. The release of the Coach Party’s first album came with packed headlining shows across continents, energized festival performances, and support for big names in rock from Queens of The Stone Age to Wet Leg. Time will tell what their next project will bring.