SPILL NEWS: LITTLE BARRIE SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “MORE BAD MILES OF ROAD” PREVIEWING NEW LP ‘GRAVITY FREEZE’ OUT MAY 22

LITTLE BARRIE SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “MORE BAD MILES OF ROAD” PREVIEWING NEW LP GRAVITY FREEZE OUT MAY 22

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Little Barrie–the band of in-demand singer/guitarist Barrie Cadogan, bassist Lewis Wharton, and drummer Tony Coote–today shared the new video for their latest single, “More Bad Miles Of Road,” previewing their new album Gravity Freeze due out May 22nd (Easy Eye Sound). Filmed in London and directed by the acclaimed LA-based Robert Schober (Metallica, Green Day, The Killers), Cadogan shares, “I really liked Robert Schober’s visuals for our previous album Electric War and wanted to keep that going into Gravity Freeze. Both albums were recorded during a similar overlapping time, so it made sense. They’re different albums in mood but feel closely related. We also brought in our long-time collaborator Lee Vincent Grubb who shot the Gravity Freeze cover art to shoot the band footage at his studio in London. A cool crew of folk to be working with.” Additionally, they have just announced a run of U.K. Rough Trade in-store dates for the week of album release.

“‘More Bad Miles Of Road’ was written from the bass, which I was fooling around with one morning at home,” Cadogan explains. “I liked the idea of a bassline that sounded like it could have been played on an upright bass rather than a bass guitar. I’m not sure I achieved it, but I liked the result. I stripped the music down for the bridge sections in the aim of making something more minimal with sparse bursts of guitar around the scratch vocal. Tony Coote put the stops and starts in on the drums which I really liked. It came together pretty fast and felt good. One of the earlier tunes written for the album.”

Cast in the grand tradition of great British rock bands, and fueled by a love of American blues, funk and soul, Little Barrie’s sixth studio album is the first released solely under the band’s own name since the death of drummer Virgil Howe in September 2017. The LP follows more than two decades of activity that have established the band as a key force in UK psychedelic rock and soul. Following Howe’s passing, Cadogan and founding bassist Lewis Wharton placed the future of the band on hold. After initial plans to resume playing were disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the pair began collaborating with long-time friend Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics). This partnership resulted in two albums, Quatermass Seven (2020) and Electric War, released on Easy Eye Sound in April 2025. For Gravity Freeze, the hooks are sharper, the grooves are deeper, and the atmospherics thicker, building on the band’s previous, highly-acclaimed work.

Work on the LP began in late 2023. The album was recorded at Rat Salad Studios in Hornsey, North London, with Rupert Lyddon serving as recording engineer and co-producer. Continuing the band’s established DIY approach, early demos were captured in a cold room room in Dalston surrounded by partial drum kits, art equipment, and random bits of wood and metal, before formal recording sessions began. Coote joined the band for the album, contributing performances informed by classic jazz, soul and blues rhythms. Recording took place alongside Cadogan’s commitments as a touring and session guitarist, including work with Liam Gallagher and John Squire, The Black Keys, and THE THE, as well as sessions at Easy Eye Sound Studios in Nashville.

Gravity Freeze was written and sequenced with vinyl in mind and marks over 25 years since Little Barrie’s first singles on Stark Reality. The release represents a new chapter for the band following a nine-year gap since their previous studio album.

Tour Dates

05/20 – Rough Trade, Nottingham
05/21 – Rough Trade, Bristol
05/23 – Rough Trade East, London

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Background Photo Credit: Lee Vincent Grubb