{"id":2093160,"date":"2025-10-15T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2093160"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:05:31","slug":"florentenes-drop-cathartic-new-anthem-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/florentenes-drop-cathartic-new-anthem-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Florentenes Drop Cathartic New Anthem \u2018The News\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bolton\u2019s own teenage fire-starters\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.florentenes.com\/home\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.florentenes.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florentenes<\/a>\u00a0have just dropped their new single\u00a0\u2018The News\u2019, a jagged, high-voltage track that\u2019s equal parts cynicism, affection and adrenaline. It\u2019s the first release from their upcoming final EP before the band shifts into debut album mode, and if this is the tone they\u2019re setting, 2026 could be theirs for the taking.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Credit: Gabi Du Plesis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fresh off their\u00a0PUNCHBAG UNI: The University Tour, a 15-date <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.co.uk\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Live Nation<\/a>-backed run that\u2019s re-igniting guitar music on UK campuses, the band are quickly becoming one of the most talked-about new acts in British alt-rock. With a sold-out northern run, support slots with names like\u00a0Razorlight,\u00a0The Royston Club,\u00a0Jamie Webster, and\u00a0Sundara Karma, and a sound that feels at once familiar and fired-up, Florentenes are carving a lane that\u2019s all their own.<\/p>\n<p>New single\u00a0\u2018The News\u2019\u00a0leans into that tension. It\u2019s self-aware, shape-shifting and full of bite, moving from dark, gritty riffs into bursts of warmth and clarity before landing in a cathartic lyrical release. Frontman\u00a0William Smith\u00a0explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s me flipping through all the noise, headlines, opinions, expectations\u2026 and trying to find a bit of truth in it. It\u2019s cynical and affectionate at the same time. It ends with this realisation that I don\u2019t need to compete with anyone \u2014 I just need to make something that feels true to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Produced by\u00a0Dave Eringa\u00a0(The Who, Manic Street Preachers),\u00a0\u2018The News\u2019\u00a0is raw, fast, and loud in all the right ways, the kind of track that feels like it was recorded in one take and meant to be heard in a packed-out venue.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Florentenes - The News (Official Visualiser)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p1SlLUa82Z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Florentenes have been compared to early\u00a0Arctic Monkeys\u00a0and\u00a0The Libertines, and you can hear the lineage, but they\u2019re not just chasing the past. Their sound is laced with urgency, tension, and that strange mix of fragility and fight that defines being young in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As Eringa puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis is the band the UK music industry has been waiting for \u2014 insanely talented, insanely young, and cool as. No clicks, no autotune, no nonsense. Just massive songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With their debut album on the horizon and a packed live calendar through December,  including slots with\u00a0The Wombats,\u00a0The Rolling People, and\u00a0Shambolics, Florentenes are doing it the right way: one room, one riff, one chant-along chorus at a time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musicandgigs.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolton\u2019s own teenage fire-starters\u00a0Florentenes\u00a0have just dropped their new single\u00a0\u2018The News\u2019, a jagged, high-voltage track that\u2019s equal parts cynicism, affection and adrenaline. It\u2019s the first release from their upcoming final EP before the band shifts into debut album mode, and if this is the tone they\u2019re setting, 2026 could be theirs for the taking. 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