Little Barrie announce details of their new album Gravity Freeze, released Friday 22nd May 2026 on Easy Eye Sound. The trio, fronted by in-demand guitarist Barrie Cadogan, also have today shared the first single, ‘More Bad Miles Of Road’.
Talking about the track, Barrie Cadogan said:
‘More Bad Miles Of Road’ was written from the bass, which I was fooling around with one morning at home. I liked the idea of a bassline that sounded as if it could have been played on an upright bass rather than a bass guitar. I’m not sure I achieved it, but I liked the result. I stripped the music down for the bridge sections in the aim of making something more minimal with sparse bursts of guitar around the scratch vocal. Tony Coote put the stops and starts in on the drums which I really liked. It came together pretty fast and felt good. One of the earlier tunes written for the album.
Listen to ‘More Bad Miles Of Road’ BELOW.
The track listing of the album is as follows:
More Bad Miles Of Road
It Isn’t Soul
December
Luggin’ Hurt
Talk It Up Like It’s Wanted
Anything You Are
Coralisa
Wire
Gravity Freeze
GRAVITY FREEZE is Little Barrie’s sixth studio album and the first released solely under the band’s own name since the death of drummer Virgil Howe in September 2017. The album follows more than two decades of activity that have established the band as a key force in UK psychedelic rock and soul.
Following Howe’s passing, bandleader Barrie Cadogan and founding bassist Lewis Wharton placed the future of the band on hold. After initial plans to resume playing were disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the pair began collaborating with long-time friend Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics). This partnership resulted in two joint albums: Quatermass Seven (2020) and Electric War, released on Easy Eye Sound in April 2025.
Work on GRAVITY FREEZE began in late 2023. The album was recorded at Rat Salad Studios in Hornsey, North London, with Rupert Lyddon serving as recording engineer and co-producer. Continuing the band’s established DIY approach, early demos were captured in a cold room in Dalston surrounded by partial drum kits, art equipment and random bits of wood and metal before formal recording sessions began.
Drummer Tony Coote joined the band for the album, contributing performances informed by classic jazz, soul and blues rhythms.. Recording took place alongside Cadogan’s commitments as a touring and session guitarist, including work with Liam Gallagher and John Squire, The Black Keys, and THE THE, as well as sessions at Easy Eye Sound Studios in Nashville.
GRAVITY FREEZE was written and sequenced with vinyl in mind and marks over 25 years since Little Barrie’s first singles on Stark Reality. The release represents a new chapter for the band following a nine-year gap since their previous studio album.
Additionally, Cadogan recently worked on the soundtrack to the documentary Dogs On The Streets in 2022 and the Ultra Sonic Grand Prix album with Shawn Lee, released in 2024.
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