ALIEN CHICKS RELEASE TOYS TAKEN AT BIRTH EP | OUT NOW | TOUR DATES
ALCOPOP! RECORDS
London post-punk specialists Alien Chicks release their thrilling Toys Taken At Birth EP, out today (October 2nd) via esteemed indie label Alcopop! Records (Art Brut, Ditz, The Wytches).
Comprising of acclaimed lead singles “5/4” and “Madmen” (alongside focus single “Now I’m Big”), Toys Taken At Birth encapsulates the group’s relentless energy and anthemic sensibilities in full flow. Armed with a collection of diverse influences and a fearless approach to their genre, the trio continue to defy expectations, whilst critical acclaim continues to gather momentum in the process. Press praise from key titles including The Independent, NME, DIY, Dork, Clash, Rolling Stone, CMU, Rough Trade and Wonderland has certainly helped accelerate their profile, as well as regular airplay across the BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders, Arielle Free, Amy Lamé), BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamacq, Deb Grant, Nathan Shepherd, Tom Robinson) and Radio X (John Kennedy) airwaves.
Primed to head out on a UK in-store run and European tour this autumn to coincide with their EP release (with a February 2027 UK + EU run to follow incl. a London headliner at The Lexington), the band are ready to build on their relentless live reputation. Having already supported esteemed contemporaries such as English Teacher, Lambrini Girls, Sprints, Maruja and Big Special, Alien Chicks also made their first trip stateside for SXSW earlier this year.
Detailing their EP, Alien Chicks revealed: “The world is on its knees – and you can see it, even if the people in charge are still pretending they can’t. Toys Taken at Birth is about the injustice that leaves some people with everything and some with nothing.
Power doesn’t present itself cleanly; it leaks through spectacle and symbolism – flags appearing overnight on high streets, headlines flipping within hours, slogans that feel less like belief and more like control tactics nobody agreed to. Even everyday life starts to feel slightly repurposed, like familiar things have been quietly reassigned for a different agenda. And the biggest voices, the so-called “big dogs,” aren’t really talking about it in any meaningful way. That silence sits underneath everything, like it’s part of the design.
The songs on the EP sit inside that pressure rather than observing it. They move through frustration, satire, and escalation, where authority gets exaggerated into something almost grotesque, but still recognisably real. Language starts to buckle under repetition, meaning gets worn down by exposure, and everything feels like it’s happening at you rather than around you. By the end, there’s no release – just escalation without direction. Patterns repeating so aggressively they stop feeling like culture or politics and start feeling like the infrastructure of the country itself: automatic, indifferent, and impossible to switch off. And then we do a Missy Elliott cover. ‘Cause you might as well get your freak on.”
Alien Chicks’ Toys Taken At Birth is out now via Alcopop! Records and available on all digital platforms.
Alien Chicks is Josef Lindsay (guitar, vocals), Stefan Parker-Steele (bass, backing vocals), Martha Daniels (drums, backing vocals)
Tour Dates
2 OCT – Rough Trade East, London (UK)
4 OCT – Jacaranda, Liverpool (UK)
5 OCT – Banquet Records, Kingston (UK)
7 OCT – Rough Trade, Bristol (UK)
16 OCT – Supersonic, Paris (FR)
17 OCT – Simplon, Groningen (NL)
19 OCT – Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
20 OCT – Glocksee, Hannover (DE)
21 OCT – Molotow, Hamburg (DE)
22 OCT – Rust, Copenhagen (DK)
24 OCT – Mutations Festival, Brighton (UK)
05 NOV – Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavik (IS)
9 JAN – Rockaway Beach, Bognor Regis (UK)
21 JAN – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds (UK)
22 JAN – YES Basement, Manchester (UK)
23 JAN – The Garage, Glasgow (UK)
15 FEB – Kult 41, Bonn (DE)
16 FEB – Schon Schoen, Mainz (DE)
17 FEB – Schokoladen, Berlin (DE)
18 FEB – NBL, Leipzig (DE)
19 FEB – Aaltra, Chemnitz (DE)
24 FEB – Louisiana, Bristol (UK)
25 FEB – The Prince Albert, Brighton (UK)
26 FEB – The Lexington, London
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