False Heads debut album ‘It’s All There But You’re Dreaming’ is just the gnarly, riff-heavy rock we need

London’s False Heads have released their debut album ‘It’s All There But You’re Dreaming’ into the world this month and fans will not be disappointed on the 12-track LP.

The punk-rock powerhouses have spent four years of hard work building up to this point and they hold back no punches with its devastating guitar work, explosive drops and overall monstrous impact.

The 12 tracks delve deep into the world of gnarly, outspoken real-talk, riff-heavy rock music delivered with maximum authenticity and passion, ‘Fall Around’ has an addictive sing-along chorus that will be rattling around venues in no time. And older tracks ‘Twenty Nothing,’ ‘Slew,’ ‘Help Yourself,’ ‘Wrap Up’ and ‘Slease’ get a production overhaul, adding a whole new dimension to their original releases.

They’re joined by new songs; ‘Whatever You Please,’ ‘Ink,’ ‘Comfort Consumption,’ ‘Come At The King’ and ‘Steady On Your Knees’ to complete the line-up. Five tracks of brutal awareness, dark, grooving basslines, solid-as-a-rock drumming, snarling vocals and overflowing riffs from the get-go.

Without a doubt one of the most followed up and coming UK bands from the last few years, False Heads have delivered a journey of social subject matters, cultural talking points, political opinions and everything in between. ‘It’s All There, But You’re Dreaming’ tackles topics that Luke Griffiths, Jake Elliott and Barney Nash have openly talked about in their lyrics since starting out, making this album their own musical timeline.

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Lead singer and guitarist Luke Griffiths added: “‘It’s All There, But You’re Dreaming’ is the culmination of the last four years of our lives together and the last ten of lives individually – since we all picked up instruments in our early teens.

“The world is bleak and social media makes it bleaker. We get our information from our own echo chamber and we are our own tabloids. The album is trying to find a way internally of processing the external and that has themes of depression, misery and addiction but also slight bursts of optimist and individual joy.

“We didn’t consciously think too hard about what we wanted musically, as it’s a perfect summation of the last four years of us being in a band together. There are songs that are old and songs that are new and they have different sounds and feelings to them. But we did want to create something that is interesting and versatile which we think we did. It’s not the same song 12 times and even though it’s aggressive it’s also delicate which is exactly what we wanted.”

Listen to the album in full below and pick up your copy of the LP from Music Glue here.