Brighton’s Sick Joy today announce details of their anticipated new studio album “More Forever”, set for release on January 30th, 2026.
Recorded in a remote Spanish studio with acclaimed producer Alain Johannes (Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell, Them Crooked Vultures), then later mixed by Josh “Hoagie” Harrison (Royal Blood, The Cure) and mastered by Katie Tavini, Sick Joy’s sophomore album expands the band’s alt-rock DNA while adding industrial nods, with bruising potent drums, jagged synths, and lyrics that wrestle systemic damage, grief, love and survival into brutal poetry.
The announcement arrives alongside the album’s first single, “All Damage”, available now on all major streaming platforms. Watch the video below.
Speaking on the new single, vocalist and guitarist Mykl Barton shares: “Becoming aware of negative processes that were once subconscious, but still allowing them to rule. The persistent search for some chemical absolution for allowing the darkest parts of yourself to take the reins. Seeing the deep roots of these damaging, unsustainable coping mechanisms, but also still feeling a yearn towards them. The eternally aching dichotomy that’s been a constant my entire life”.
Pre-order & pre-save “More Forever” here.
Tracklist:
1. Back at the Beginning
2. All Damage
3. Nothing Good
4. Anything Goes
5. Cinnamon Burn
6. Gone Missing
7. Here We Are (Somewhere Liminal)
8. Stockholm Flavour
9. Video Game
10. Strawberries & Cigarettes
11. Somebody Else
12. Death Scene (More Forever)
To celebrate the album’s release, Sick Joy will hit the road for a headline tour across the UK and Europe in early 2026, kicking on in Birmingham on January 29th, before concluding in Paris on February 20th. Full dates below.
UK & European Tour Dates 2026:
Jan 29 Birmingham Flapper
Jan 30 London Oslo
Jan 31 Cambridge The Blue Moon
Feb 3 Exeter Cavern
Feb 4 Bristol Exchange
Feb 6 Nottingham Bodega
Feb 7 Manchester Deaf Institute
Feb 8 Glasgow Hug & Pint
Feb 10 Newcastle Zerox
Feb 11 Norwich Voodoo Daddys
Feb 13 Brighton Daltons
Feb 18 Amsterdam Cinetol
Feb 20 Paris Supersonic
In a world increasingly driven by chaos, Sick Joy continue to find clarity in distortion.
Born in Newcastle’s underground circuit and cultivated in Brighton’s renowned music scene, Sick Joy is the sonic heartbeat of singer and multi instrumentalist Mykl Barton. Coined late one evening in a North East bar, the project’s name became the perfect metaphor for Barton’s enduring obsession with duality: beauty vs. ruin, euphoria vs. despair. Sick Joy became a vehicle to channel years of disarray and turmoil into a sound where rabid riffs sit beside soaring widescreen choruses.
Since their formation, Sick Joy have become one of the UK’s most compelling rock bands. Armed with a sound that fuses bleeding-heart melody, sledgehammer riffs, and brutal lyrical honesty, they’ve toured with icons like Pixies and Pearl Jam, shared stages with Dinosaur Pile-Up and Deaf Havana, and torn through sets at Reading & Leeds, 2000 Trees and beyond.
Their critically acclaimed debut album turned heads all over, earning worldwide praise across press and radio. With the new album and their biggest-ever headline tour on the horizon, 2025 marks a new era for Sick Joy – heavier, hungrier, and more human than ever before.
Weblinks:
www.sickjoy.com
www.facebook.com/sickjoyband
