Man/Woman/Chainsaw share, 'Get Up and Dance', the fourth song now to land from their much-anticipated debut album, Cannonball., coming August 7 on Fiction Records
The latest ambitious single from the group is the first to feature Emmie-Mae Avery on lead vocals. ‘Get Up and Dance’ brings the orchestral dynamics of the band into full flow, as synth and string lines dive and circle in unison.
On the themes of the song, according to Emmie-Mae: “In my mind it’s set in a club, where you spot someone who’s been trying their luck with different people all night and decide to turn the game back on them. It starts playful but then takes a forceful approach, as you push them to prove their interest and test how far they’ll go, aiming to have them make a fool of themselves.”
Listen to ‘Get Up and Dance’ on F1 Tracks.
The 11 songs of Cannonball burst forth with pure feeling: grand and exuberant, rich with unconventional structures and world-beating choruses, the long-awaited record making good on the band’s years of hard touring while unearthing new dimensions and unlikely facets in their songwriting. It is a sharp, smart first record, one which presents Man/Woman/Chainsaw exactly as they are right now: one of London’s most promising young bands, coming into their own as fearless experimentalists and vital songwriters. “We were talking about having a whole record of bangers – having everything be really in your face,” says drummer Lola Cherry.
Working with Seth Evans (Geordie Greep, Black Midi) and Margo Broom (Fat White Family, Big Joanie), Man/Woman/Chainsaw landed on a clean, grandiose sound for Cannonball, one befitting their emotional intentions. Its deft, organic blending of theatricality and raw honesty belies its intense level of craft; these songs are razor sharp and evoke the mess and stress of being in one’s teens and early-20s better than almost any other band working today.
Formed at only 16 years old and crafting their songs in a converted vicarage, the bold new single and album follows European dates over the last month and a breakthrough 2025 where the band sold out both London’s Scala and an entire UK tour in October, their second sold out tour of the year. They played live sessions for both KEXP and Steve Lamacq at BBC 6 Music and completed a triumphant first trip to Austin for SXSW in the Spring, where Man/Woman/Chainsaw found themselves standing at the very forefront of a new wave of British bands “most likely to”.
