BASEMENT BREAK EIGHT YEAR SILENCE WITH NEW ALBUM WIRED AND RELEASE TWO NEW SINGLES

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After more than eight years without a full-length release, Basement are officially back. The UK outfit has announced their long-awaited new album, Wired, arriving May 8 via Run For Cover Records, and has shared two new tracks, “WIRED” and “Broken By Design,” offering the first real look at this next era.

For a band that helped define a generation of emotionally charged alternative and post-hardcore, the return carries weight. Time away has not softened them. If anything, it has clarified their purpose.

The title track “WIRED” surges with urgency. The guitars feel tightly coiled, balancing melody and abrasion, while the vocals carry a steady, controlled intensity. It sounds restless in the best way, like a band leaning into tension instead of running from it.

Speaking on the single, vocalist Andrew Fisher explains, “‘WIRED’ is about how sometimes it feels that we are set up to feel and behave in certain ways beyond our control. That no matter how hard you try to hide it, eventually it will come out either by choice or by force. This song was almost lost. A few of us were into it, but it sort of lost traction for a bit. Then one day it cropped back up, and we put it at the forefront of our minds, and it ended up being one of my favourite songs to perform and record.”

“Broken By Design” reveals another side of the record. It leans into space and reflection without losing its impact. The arrangement breathes more, but the emotional pull is just as strong. The rhythm section holds everything together while the guitars swell around it, creating a sense of resilience rather than collapse.

Fisher continues, “‘Broken By Design’ is about giving something your absolute best and realising it’s destined to fail. Getting to the other side of the situation, looking back, and deciding to do everything differently, and feeling grateful for the opportunity to grow. We’ve all done a lot of work on getting better at talking to each other as friends and as bandmates. Sometimes that's an easy distinction, or rather, not a distinction at all. Other times, the lines are blurred, and we lose track of who we are and why we do this. When I’m singing, ‘let’s go back to the start,’ I mean to when we did this purely for fun. For an excuse to see each other, to travel, to be creative, to express ourselves through music. We all feel so lucky to be in a position to still get to do this, and this album and this song in particular are us trying to go back to how it should be.”

Wired marks Basement’s first new album in over eight years, but it does not feel like a nostalgic victory lap. It feels like a reset. A band reconnecting with the reason they started in the first place.

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WIRED Tracklist
1. Time Waster
2. WIRED
3. Deadweight
4. Broken By Design
5. Pick Up The Pieces
6. Embrace
7. Sever
8. The Way I Feel
9. Satisfy
10. Head Alight
11. Longshot
12. Summer’s End

Basement tour dates
6/5 – Rock Am Ring – Nürburg, RP, Germany (Sold Out, Join Waitlist)
6/6 – Rock im Park – Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
6/8 – Loppen – Copenhagen, DK (with Glare)
6/9 – Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, Sweden (with Glare)
6/14 – TAMA – Poznań, Poland (with Glare)
6/15 – Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, HE, Germany (with Glare)
6/17 – zakk – Düsseldorf, Germany (with Glare)
6/19 – Hurricane Festival – Scheeßel, NDS, Germany
6/20 – Southside Festival – Neuhausen ob Eck, BW, Germany
6/21 – Farewell Youth Fest 2 – Dresden, Germany
6/23 – Magazzini Generali – Milan, Lombardy, Italy (with Fiddlehead)
6/24 – Dynamo Zürich (Dynamo) – Zürich, ZH, Switzerland (with Fiddlehead)
6/25 – Jera on Air – Ysselsteyn, Limburg, Netherlands
6/26 – Mia Mao – Paris, France (with Fiddlehead)
6/28 – Bowlers Exhibition Centre – Manchester, UK (Outbreak Festival headline)
8/23 – Victoria Park – London, UK (All Points East)
8/27–8/29 – Canela Party – Torremolinos, Spain