Listen to Cold Years’ fired-up new single, Choke

Cold Years have just unleashed a vital new single, Choke.

The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album A Different Life – which is due out on April 26 via MNRK. And it hears the Scottish punks address the state of British politics these days, with Ross Gordon asking, ‘Where you gonna go / When everything you love is burning to the ground?’ and emphatically concluding: ‘You won’t take this from me / I hate you.’

Speaking about the record as a whole, Ross previously said: 
“This is the first time I’ve ever come out of a studio able to listen to the tracks, where, and I say this 100 per cent with conviction, we went in and did everything we wanted to do and more. I’ve never done that. I’ve always come out feeling like we could have done something better or different.

“But this album changed the game for all of us as a band. We didn’t just do 12 tracks that sound the same. We tried to make things a little different. That happened naturally, and it’s the most musical experience I’ve ever had. I definitely feel a confidence with this record that I didn’t feel on the others.”

Listen to Choke below:

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