{"id":231552,"date":"2026-01-13T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231552\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:44:17","slug":"me-rex-share-new-single-angel-hammer-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231552\/","title":{"rendered":"ME REX Share New Single “Angel Hammer”: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

ME REX have new music on the agenda for 2026. The emotive, plucky, poetic London indie rockers released their album Giant Elk<\/a> in 2023 and followed it with the excellent Smilodon<\/a> EP in 2024 (“Goodbye Forever” is one of my favorite ME REX songs in years). Today they’ve given us “Angel Hammer,” the first taste from an upcoming project to be revealed.<\/p>\n

The track marks an interesting shift for ME REX. At times it features a hard-pounding beat and harsh, piercing keyboard melodies that remind me of Animal Collective, yet Myles McCabe is still thoughtfully pouring his heart out, and the band’s signature emo\/indie hybrid remains at the core of the songwriting. A sample of his writing: “You used to meet me in freefall fall like a singing swarm of seraphim\/ The last second miracle you clung to since you stumbled in.”<\/p>\n

Here’s McCabe with some background on the song:<\/p>\n

The category is “Things That Fall.” I got sober when I was 20, I’m 34 now and I’ve been looking back on the years leading up to that and the sense of inevitability I felt about the way I was living. Between myself and a host of people I knew it seemed like there was always some kind of increasingly major mental or emotional crisis happening to one of us. For me this culminated in surviving a serious fall I had in blackout with relatively minor injuries. This song is reflecting on what led up to that accident and the things I saw happening to the people around me in those years.<\/p>\n

Listen below.<\/p>\n

ME REX also have some tour dates coming up in England. Here are those:<\/p>\n

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