Sick Joy have today released their new single ‘Nothing Good‘, taken from the recently announced album More Forever, due for release on 30th January 2026.
Speaking about the single, vocalist and guitarist Mykl Barton shares:
“Loss.
Witnessing where you are, because of where you’ve been.
No rainbows and silver linings, just cause and effect.
Finding the darkest places in the darkest corners of your memory. And pointing a finger.
Without anaesthesia reality is brutal.”
In a world increasingly defined by chaos, Sick Joy sharpen their vision through distortion.
The Brighton-based outlet, born from Newcastle’s underground and carried by the raw intensity of singer and multi-instrumentalist Mykl Barton, has always thrived in contrasts: beauty vs. ruin, euphoria vs. despair. More Forever, the new album that’s due out on 30th January 2026 sees Sick Joy push that duality further than ever before.
Recorded in isolation at a remote Spanish studio with Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell) before being mixed by Josh “Hoagie” Harrison (Royal Blood, The Cure) and mastered by Katie Tavini, the album twists Sick Joy’s alt-rock DNA into something darker, sharper, and more expansive. Industrial edges cut through widescreen choruses, bruising drums collide with jagged synths, and lyrics confront systemic damage, grief, love and survival with unflinching honesty.
Since their emergence, Sick Joy have become one of the UK’s most vital rock acts — touring with legends like Pixies and Pearl Jam, sharing bills with Dinosaur Pile-Up and Deaf Havana, and igniting festival crowds from Reading & Leeds to 2000 Trees. Their debut album cemented their reputation as a band unafraid to bare teeth and heart in equal measure.
More Forever doesn’t just continue that story – it blows it wide open. Heavier, hungrier, and more human than ever, Sick Joy are stepping forward with their most ambitious statement yet.
| To celebrate the album’s release, Sick Joy will hit the road for a headline tour across the UK and Europe in early 2026, kicking on in Birmingham on January 29th, before concluding in Paris on February 20th. Full dates below: |
| SICK JOY ALBUM HEADLINE TOUR:JANUARY 29 Birmingham Flapper 30 London Oslo 31 Cambridge The Blue Moon FEBRUARY 3 Exeter Cavern 4 Bristol Exchange 6 Nottingham Bodega 7 Manchester Deaf Institute 8 Glasgow Hug & Pint 10 Newcastle Zerox 11 Norwich Voodoo Daddys 13 Brighton Daltons 18 Amsterdam Cinetol 20 Paris Supersonic |
