Everyone Says Hi have announced their sophomore album, Funny Cos It’s True - out September 25 - alongside releasing new single, ‘Don’t Underestimate Yourself’.
‘Don’t Underestimate Yourself’ is a beautifully kaleidoscopic guitar driven anthem soaked in luscious strings and a nod to the 70s, an era that threads through the record. “This track is about my daughter, or more specifically a note to my daughter, as she grows up to remind her that she doesn’t have to think she has to change,” lead singer and songwriter Nick Hodgson says of the single. “She can remain her confident and bold self and tell everyone what to do.”
Recorded at lead singer and songwriter Nick Hodgson’s home studio and produced by Nick himself, Funny Cos It’s True is eleven tracks of intoxicating indie-pop. Following their acclaimed self-titled debut album in 2024, the record sees the band firmly stepping into their own. Layered with a hazy retro edge while sounding distinctly new, the album sees the band rediscover and reinvent a classic sound with a heavy dose of infectiously anthemic choruses and a knack for lustrous songcraft. Lyrically the album searches deep and resonates on an emotional level, with songs written following the death of his father from Alzheimer’s to songs written as a father for his young daughter and even a track targeting the MAGA movement.
Listen to ‘Don’t Underestimate Yourself’ on Marching On Together.
A more collaborative experience than the debut record work on Funny Cos It’s True began off the back of the band’s support tours for the debut album. Kicking off in an inspired fashion, the band laid down an instant demo of ‘Real Friends’ in Nick’s North London home studio in November 2024. Six months of writing later, they reconvened to record the album, with the band in full collaboration mode. Over sporadic sessions from May to September 2025, they put together a grand expansion on the sounds and themes of their debut.
“It was a big decision to record the whole album in my own studio at home. At first I was against it because I was stuck in the world of, you need big studios for drums with engineers and assistants, but the result is a record we’re unbelievably proud of,” Nick says of the album. “The album is inspired by digital loneliness, social media pressure, modern life pressure, questions on what really matters and all that miserable stuff. I am a pretty positive person though and I try to pull it back from the brink with humour, hence the title.
“I think the approach to recording was informed by a rejection of modern techniques. I feel like with people making music with AI, I want to do the opposite, go more old school, more performance based. And the best thing about recording at home is that when I’m not happy with a vocal for example, I can go back into the studio at midnight in my slippers and sing it again.”
After debut support shows with the likes of Neil Young, The Cribs, Feeder and more, as well as two standout headline shows in London and Leeds to top off 2025, Everyone Says Hi is slowly building a dedicated live following from their captivating live shows. The band will head out on a run of UK release shows in September and October, keep an eye for more shows in the near future.
