Having recently celebrated the 15th anniversary of their acclaimed debut album Boots Met My Face, Admiral Fallow return in 2025 with ‘Avalanche’, a brand new single and their first new music since 2021’s The Idea Of You LP.
This release was the band’s first venture on the Chemikal Underground label (Arab Strap, The Delgados, Phantom Band) and that relationship continues with ‘Avalanche’, the band’s tender new single which subtly kickstarts a brand new chapter for the Scottish five-piece.
Where The Idea of You sang of friendship and carefree adventure, ‘Avalanche’ finds the band in a new territory – the song written by Louis Abbott following the birth of his daughter in 2022. “It tells the story of the day she joined us in the world,” Abbott says of the new single. “I wrote the words very early one morning in Spring as she lay sleeping next to me on the couch.”
An elegant undertaking, sonically ‘Avalanche’ is defined by the rise and fall in temperature that swings back-and-forth throughout. Opening in gentle light, Abbott’s plaintive voice sings quiet details of his life as a new father, before the whole thing bursts into something bolder, the full band swelling into life and crafting something altogether more euphoric.
That push-and-pull, of fiery passion and tender restraint, has been a key aspect of the band’s sound, honed over the course of four full-length albums that have seen them championed by the likes of MOJO, Uncut, The Skinny, and more. On ‘Avalanche’, Admiral Fallow’s grasp of both colourful expression and muted delicacy feels as quietly fascinating as ever before.
