The Snuts are back with the anthemic, ‘Summer Rain', marking the Scottish band’s first new music since 2024 & the beginning of a new chapter.
Written after a period spent reconnecting with their hometown roots in West Lothian, ‘Summer Rain’ is The Snuts’ most personal release to date. The single draws on an experience that affects many but is rarely addressed in music, and offers a first glimpse of the band’s forthcoming fourth album, due later in 2026.
“My wife was struggling really badly with postnatal depression,” says frontman Jack Cochrane. “We had a kid when the band had just released our third album and were on tour. That’s way too much to be doing with a newborn.”
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The lyrics work through the couple’s shared experience, and the harsh shock of reality after the “rock’n’roll circus” of touring life. “I thought that I could just fix it – that’s a classic man thing – then I had to actually grow up. Lyrically, the song expresses the impact of change and the fear of the future, but also a willingness or plea to restart and claim back functional happiness.”
Despite its heavy themes, ‘Summer Rain’ is underpinned by a sense of hope, building to an anthemic crescendo. That balance of light and shade is echoed in the accompanying video, shot by filmmaker Charles Gall in an ancient Scottish woodland and on a nearby beach, juxtaposing black and white images of Cochrane alone with colourful scenes of children playing on the shoreline.
The single is the first taste of new music from The Snuts’ forthcoming fourth album, to be released in 2026 via the band’s own label, Happy Artist – in partnership with Virgin Music Group. The band will take their new material on the road with a run of intimate UK shows this March.
