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Little Barrie, the band of in-demand singer/guitarist Barrie Cadogan, bassist Lewis Wharton, and drummer Tony Coote, announced their new album Gravity Freeze which will be released May 22nd, 2026 via Easy Eye Sound.

The lead single “More Bad Miles Of Road” was written from the bass, which I was fooling around with one morning at home,” Cadogan explains. “I liked the idea of a bassline that sounded like it could have been played on an upright bass rather than a bass guitar. I stripped the music down for the bridge sections in the aim of making something more minimal with sparse bursts of guitar around the scratch vocal. Tony Coote put the stops and starts in on the drums which I really liked. It came together pretty fast and felt good.”

Cast in the grand tradition of great British rock bands, and fueled by a love of American blues, funk and soul, Little Barrie’s sixth studio album is the first released solely under the band’s own name since the death of drummer Virgil Howe in September 2017.

The LP follows more than two decades of activity that have established the band as a key force in UK psychedelic rock and soul.

“Have you ever had sleep paralysis?” asks Cadogan, discussing the title of the trio’s latest album offering. “That’s what ‘Gravity Freeze’ is written about. It’s like a nickname I gave to that moment where you’ve woken up and you’re still dreaming.