London’s Sad Boys Club have returned with a sublime new single ‘Could Have Beens (& What Ifs)’.
The track is the second piece of the puzzle in a new era for the four-piece, who ended 2020 with the electrifying indie pop bop ’25’.
Sad Boys Club have stepped up their game on their latest effort with charming reverbs and nostalgic 00s hooks. The track embraces the genres they grew up with. From post-emo melodies to American Football-esque guitars are infectious. The chorus is super infectious with Jacob Wheldon’s vocals punch through the surface.
Speaking about the track, frontman Jacob Wheldon says: “Pedro and I share in our sense of otherness. It’s something we take pride in but it’s something that’s tested us both recently – he as a Brazilian immigrant, myself as a Jew.
“The country has at times felt so hostile, isolating, alienating, foreign, whatever; this is as much about friends as it is Farage. Navigating what to be vocal about, when to be vocal about it and how to be vocal about it… it’s weird to have to worry about that in the place you call home.
“You have to choose something to sacrifice or it gets chosen for you – I think that can be an arena in which darkness thrives but in the effort to find your own peace with it you learn a lot about yourself and the people around you. Chris thought it was about girls though and I don’t want to take that away from him so it can be about that if that works for you!”
Sitting at the core of this is, Sad Boys Club have the ability to craft huge choruses that pack an emotional sucker punch and bring dangerously relatable anxieties to the fore, culminating in a track that seamlessly encapsulates why the band are one of the capital’s most creatively defiant outfits of the moment.
