Lancaster noise rock power-trio powerhouse TV FACE are set to end an incendiary year with a volatile new single titled ‘Happy New Year’. Culled from the bands second album ‘Wolf Rents Bark’, released to a rapturous reception by Crackedankles Records in September of this year (and voted Number 7 in Louder Than War’s Top 100 Albums of 2025, no less), ‘Happy New Year’ is about as far away from the rosy-cheeked cheer of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ as you could possibly get. Instead, the caustic sonic barrage of ‘Happy New Year’ is more protest than celebration.
“Live, this track has been landing hard. ‘Happy New Year’ charts innocence slipping into disillusionment, with lyrics written under a self-imposed rule of just three syllables per line,” state TVFACE. “It inspired WOLF RENTS BARK, our album title for an age where politician-CEOs cosplay as ‘the guy next door,’ while extracting wealth at a pace. The band are releasing this festive protest song instead of creating more landfill Christmas-themed shit.”
Crashing in with a tense, jarring bass and drum groove, ‘Happy New Year’ blasts with bursts of sheet metal guitar before the chorus hook firmly embeds itself deep inside your cranium. For the video, the band were going to do something simple, then they didn’t. They did something mental instead.
“Take Weird Science, soak it in Lynchian dread, dust it with Wes Anderson’s surreal symmetry, and drench the whole thing in Wolf of Wall Street-level debauchery. That’s the vibe. Like all our videos and art, this was a DIY affair. We filmed it in a punk-rock bungalow in rural Lancashire and promptly lost the plot. It mutates through four twisted vignettes into one big, beautiful mess.”
Watch the video for ‘Happy New Year’ HERE
TV FACE have built up a fierce reputation for their ability to weld dissonant chaos to pop hooks and turn it into something blistering, witty, and impossible to ignore. 2026 is going to be a big year for this trio. Don’t switch the channel.
UPCOMING SHOWS
18th Dec: The Parish, Huddersfield, supporting McClusky
23rd January: JT Soar, Nottingham
24th January: The Salty Dog, Northwich
3rd May: The Ferret, Preston, Crackedankles Weekender
TV Face are:
Brigit (bass/vocals)
sTeVe (vocals/guitar)
Steeny (drums)
Find TV Face online HERE
