Hard-Fi return with first new single in a decade ‘Don’t Go Making Plans’

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Hard-Fi have returned with ‘Don’t Go Making Plans’ – their first new single in a decade. Check it out below, as well as details of their upcoming EP and UK tour.Announced today (May 20), the new track marks the first from the band in 10 years and comes as the taster of their forthcoming EP of the same name.With the track, Richard Archer and co.

bring the summer feeling, delivering a fast-paced, groovy and soul-infused anthem. “All my money keeps walking out the door/ No, I don’t know, what do they want it all for?” the frontman questions in the opening lyrics, keeping a politically motivated theme at the core.“There’s a heavy feeling hanging about the place/ feels like I’m down down down, on my face, and a boot in my back,” he continues, before launching into the pop-infused chorus.According to the band, the song’s themes were initially inspired by the UK Government’s attempts to criminalise many aspects of popular protest through the 2022 Public Order Act, and is meant to provoke thought in the listeners.“Don’t Go Making Plans is sort of a protest song about protest, but I wanted to encapsulate that message into something that was still a pop song,” Archer explained.“A track that you can still dance to in a club or play on the radio, because a song like that you can make a real connection to and circumnavigates the pointless restrictions being put in our way.

Governments passing laws to stop protests that ’cause more than minor disruption feels like something out of a dystopian film,” he added.“The whole point of protest is disruption.

You’re trying to interrupt the inevitable flow of things, to encourage the people running the country to think again, especially when you have a government that doesn’t seem to be.