Little Barrie drop seven-minute psych banger ‘Luggin’ Hurt’ ahead of new album

Seven minutes. Fuzz guitar. A groove that doesn’t quit. Little Barrie are back with Luggin’ Hurt, the latest single from their forthcoming album ‘Gravity Freeze’, due May 22nd via Easy Eye Sound.

Frontman and guitarist Barrie Cadogan describes how the track came together organically — what started as the trio working through an arrangement in a room turned into a full-on extended jam that took on a life of its own. A few guitar overdubs later and it became the fuzz-drenched boogie that closes out Side A of the record. As Cadogan puts it, having Luggin’ Hurt there helped give the album its balance.

The video was directed by Robert Schober, whose credits include work with Metallica, Green Day, and The Killers.

Luggin’ Hurt joins previously released singles It Isn’t Soul and More Bad Miles Of Road, which picked up support from WXPN, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, Brooklyn Vegan, Rolling Stone France, and NME Japan among others.

A Band Reborn

‘Gravity Freeze’ is Little Barrie’s sixth studio album and the first released under the band’s own name since the death of drummer Virgil Howe in September 2017. That loss put everything on hold — and then the pandemic pushed it further. Eventually, Cadogan and bassist Lewis Wharton linked up with longtime friend Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics), a collaboration that produced two albums: ‘Quatermass Seven’ (2020) and ‘Electric War’, released on Easy Eye Sound in April 2025.

Now, with new drummer Tony Coote bringing a classic jazz, soul, and blues sensibility to the kit, the band has stepped fully back into the light. ‘Gravity Freeze’ was recorded at Rat Salad Studios in Hornsey, North London — early demos were laid down in a friend’s Dalston studio surrounded by amps, drums, and art equipment before formal sessions kicked off. The hooks are sharper, the grooves deeper, and the atmospherics thicker than ever. Cadogan recorded the album alongside a packed touring and session schedule that included stints with Liam Gallagher and John Squire, The Black Keys, and THE THE, plus sessions at Easy Eye Sound Studios in Nashville.

And speaking of The Black Keys — Cadogan is currently out on the road with them as additional guitarist for their U.S. spring dates before Little Barrie heads into their own European headline run.

‘Gravity Freeze’ is written and sequenced with vinyl in mind, and marks more than 25 years since Little Barrie’s first singles on Stark Reality. It’s a real full-circle moment.

Pre-order ‘Gravity Freeze’ here.

Little Barrie Tour Dates

05/20 — Nottingham, UK — Rough Trade (In-store)
05/21 — Bristol, UK — Rough Trade (In-store)
05/23 — London, UK — Rough Trade East (In-store)
08/15 — Norwich, UK — Suffield Summer Fiesta
09/18 — Bedford, UK — Esquires
09/19 — Nottingham, UK — Bodega
09/20 — Birmingham, UK — Hare & Hounds
09/22 — Newcastle, UK — Cluny 2
09/23 — Glasgow, UK — Stereo
09/24 — Manchester, UK — YES
09/25 — London, UK — Dingwalls
09/26 — Bristol, UK — Thekla
09/29 — Brussels, BE — La Botanique
09/30 — Hague, NL — Paard
10/01 — Lille, FR — L’Aeroneuf
10/02 — Rouen, FR — Le 106
10/03 — Bordeaux, FR — Pole Invasion
10/04 — La Rochelle, FR — La Sirene
10/05 — Paris, FR — La Maroquinerie

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