THE SNUTS are officially back.
After teasing their return last week on social media, the West Lothian outfit have dropped their first new single since 2024, and it’s called ‘Summer Rain’.
Described as their most personal track to date, it was written after a period spent reconnecting with their hometown roots in West Lothian – allowing them time and space to look inwards.
My wife was struggling really badly with postnatal depression,” says frontman JackCochrane. “We had a kid when the band had just released our third album and were ontour. That’s way too much to be doing with a newborn.”
The lyrics work through the couple’s shared experience, and the harsh shock of reality after the “rock’n’roll circus” of touring life. “I thought that I could just fix it, that’s a classic man thing, then I had to actually grow up. Lyrically, the song expresses the impact of change and the fear of the future, but also a willingness or plea to restart and claim back functional happiness.”
Despite its heavy themes, ‘Summer Rain’ is underpinned by a sense of hope, building to an anthemic crescendo. The big hooks are still present and correct, and the band deliver an emotive, singalong chorus that deserves to be heard in front of huge fields.
That balance of light and shade is echoed in the accompanying video, shot by filmmaker Charles Gall in an ancient Scottish woodland and on a nearby beach, juxtaposing black and white images of Cochrane alone with colourful scenes of children playing on the shoreline.
The single is the first taste of new music from The Snuts’ forthcoming fourth album, to be released in 2026 via the band’s own label, Happy Artist – in partnership with Virgin MusicGroup. The band will take their new material on the road with a run of intimate UK shows this March.
Watch the video here:
THE SNUTS | UK TOUR DATES –MARCH 2026
March 12 – Lincoln, Engine Shed
March 13 – Stoke-on-Trent, Victoria Hall
March 14 – Leicester, O2 Academy Leicester
March 16 – Frome, Cheese and Grain
March 18 – Brighton, Chalk
March 19 – Cambridge, Cambridge Corn Exchange
March 20 – Oxford, O2 Academy Oxford
March 22 – Warrington, Pyramid and Parr Hall
