The artwork for “Curtain Call,” hairpin’s new single, has a clock running out—fitting, since the song’s about a narrator with the end creeping up. Out February 27, 2025, it’s the south coast UK crew—Adam Edwards, Perry Sears, Sam Marsh, Callan Milward—throwing down gritty guitars, a bass line that doesn’t quit, and drums that smack you awake. It’s their first stab at a track together, now leading the charge for their debut EP, Modern Day Living, dropping April 3. No label, just them, doing it their way.
This isn’t the polished stuff their old bands—Lost in the Riots, Weatherstate, Nervus, Bearded Youth Quest—might’ve churned out. It’s rougher, nastier, what they call “post-hardcore through a power pop lens.”
Think Hot Snakes or Drug Church, maybe a dash of Sugar’s snarl.
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Modern Day Living kicked off as Adam Edwards messing around with demos in a spare room down on the coast, killing time between other projects, eventually involving Sears, Marsh and Milward to realise the project as a full band.
Now it’s five tracks tearing into the daily slog—lyrics with a sarcastic bite about life’s drag and unease, backed by guitars that scrape, bass that pushes, drums that pound.
- Okay Thru There
- Curtain Call
- Wiped
- Shake It
- Self Portrait
They recorded it at Edwards’ spot, Community Noise, a beat-up farm building in Dorset. Jack Kenny, mate from Jaguar Throne and Milk Teeth, laid down drums at Big Night Studio. Roberto Cappellina from Lakes chipped in vocals on “Okay Thru There.” Ludwig Maier mastered it; Hannah Leah Maybery split artwork duties with Edwards.
“Curtain Call” is the EP’s opening shot—time winding down, the grind wearing thin, a sense it’s all about to snap. Lyrics don’t cry about it; they smirk, like they’ve clocked the game already. South coast grit’s in there, that salty, rusty feel, fueling the whole thing. hairpin’s not polishing anything—they’re kicking it out, rough and real.
April 3’s when it hits, but “Curtain Call” is already out there saying it plain: hairpin’s moving, and they’re not waiting around.
