AHEAD OF ANTICIPATED ALBUM RELEASE, BILK RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘GO’

“BILK BURST UNAPOLOGETICALLY INTO 2025 WITH NEW SINGLE ‘GO’ WHICH IS A THREE MINUTE BLAST OF INTENSITY – A REAL ROCK AND ROLL BANGER WITH HIP HOP INFLUENCES AND PUNK BARS VEHEMENTLY TARGETING HATERS AND INDUSTRY FAKERS.“

Photo by Marie Lehman

The Bilk boys bound into 2025 in typically charismatic style with the new single ‘Go’. It kickstarts a big year ahead, which detonates with the release of their second album ‘Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll’ on January 24th. They then hit the road for a headline tour which includes their biggest London show so far at the Electric Ballroom, and stretches from Glasgow down to Milan – with much more to come as the year unfolds.

Hit play on ‘Go’ and Bilk command your attention with a three-minute blast of intensity. From its opening power chords, the verses see vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Sol Abrahams deliver a vehement manifesto of what it means to be him in 2025. The verses pulsate with a rhythmic hip-hop bounce, providing the perfect context for Sol’s rap-punk bars to hit hard as he targets haters, industry fakes, and the mundanity of a routine 9-5 life. As the lyrics state, ‘Go’ is a track that comes from the mind of someone who likes Biggie Smalls just as much as The Smiths and Oasis.

Sol says, “‘Go’ is a rock and roll banger and I think my influence of hip hop comes through on this one a lot. You can hear the grimey flows and that. The song is just about me doing me and everything that’s sorta happened in the last year or so.”

With ‘Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll’ now just nine days away, ‘Go’ amplifies expectations for the album. As we’ve heard from its previous singles, it’s Bilk’s most diverse set to date as it takes in indie rock, punk, hip-hop and singer-songwriter confessionals – plus much more that will be revealed when the album drops. Thematically it centres on the living in the moment and captures social stories Sol has seen around the Essex heartlands – yet there’s also a touch of growing up without growing old too.

Sol and bandmates Luke Hare (bass) and Harry Gray (drums) recorded the album at Edge Studios and Silkmill Studios with producer Andy Gannon (AIKO, The HARA).

‘Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll’ is available to pre-order HERE. The band’s official stores offers an exclusive signed red vinyl.

Industry underdogs Bilk have primarily built their reputation with a series of chaotic shows which have included pulverising festival sets at Reading (every year since 2022), Leeds, SXSW, Truck, The Great Escape and Louis Tomlinson’s Away From Home – their unrestrained mania also resulting in a ban from Rough Trade after their in-store turned anarchic. But fans keep coming back for more, which has seen their London shows upscale from the 320-capacity Omeara to a new 1500-capacity peak at the Electric Ballroom.

Next month sees Bilk commence their UK and European headline tour. Their Hamburg show sold-out three months in advance and numerous other shows are now about to follow suit. Remaining tickets are available HERE. Three lads in one van playing 27 shows spanning 14 weeks over the course of a total of six weeks – what could possibly go wrong?

LISTEN TO ‘GO’ HERE NOW