Artist: Sugar Horse
Title: Not A Sound In Heaven
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Fat Dracula Records
Distribution: Republic of Music (Germany: Rough Trade)
Genre: Experimental Rock
Release Date: 10/04/2026
Bristol experimental band Sugar Horse will release their third album, Not A Sound In Heaven on 10th April 2026 via Fat Dracula Records.
How do you capture the machinations of the geo-political industrial war machine—and all the horrors that go with it—in the studio, without seeming trite or crass? That’s the question that Sugar Horse have posed themselves on their forthcoming third album Not A Sound In Heaven, and they must surely be one of the only bands in existence capable of delivering on just that premise with both musical substance and cutting philosophical insight.
“Ever since I was born I can remember visions of war, famine, and death being beamed directly into my living room via the magic of television,” says front man Ash Tubb of the record. “These visions were accompanied by newsreader narratives designed to either humanise or dehumanise the people involved. We humanise our government’s allies and dehumanise their enemies. This is taken as common sense, or even wisdom to some degree. People watch the news and accept it as fact, simple and true.”
“As a person gets older they move in one of three different directions with this acceptance of reality; They embrace what they’re being told, they fall into a kind of trust free nihilism or they learn that there are deeper narratives at play.”
Not A Sound In Heaven is an aged acceptance of the latter. An acceptance of sitting at the centre of a global empire of both military and economic dimensions. An acceptance that the stories we’re told as a nation, or what’s generally in the zeitgeist, isn’t necessarily reality itself.
Ash continues: “How does a person cope with the weight—and, frankly, the guilt—of a society that perpetuates such distinct inequalities? A society that thinks a bit of killing abroad is fine, as long as it improves the lives of people at home. You can see why so many choose to embrace it. Hell, nihilism seems pretty sensible. Once a person decides upon pursuing a degree of truth however, things get a bit depressing. Beyond depressing…maddening. This album explores this kind of breezy, frivolous subject matter in a manner that will no doubt be uplifting to the listener and massively financially rewarding for the artist.”
The new album follows on from their standalone AA single What’s Your ETA? Let’s Have A Tear Up / Would You Like Me To Be The Cat?which was released late last year as a surprise double drop.
Not A Sound In Heaven will be available 10th April 2026 via Fat Dracula Records.
Tracklist
1. Fire Graphics
2. Secret Speech
3. Ex-Human Shield
4. History’s Biggest T-Shirts
5. Not A Sound In Heaven
6. Company Town
7. You Can’t Say Dallas Doesn’t Love You
Links
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sugarhorse
Bandcamp: https://sugarhorse.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sugarhorse.are.awful
Facebook: https://facebook.com/sugarhorseruinedmybirthday
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@sugarhorse7891
Label: https://fatdracularecords.myshopify.com
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