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SLEAFORD MODS – Rap Punk Poetry By Numbers On 13th Album ‘THE DEMISE OF PLANET X’ Out

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17 January 2026

Band: SLEAFORD MODS
Who: Rap-punk poetry duo featuring
voice Jason Williamson and instrumentalist
Andrew Fearn.

New album: THE DEMISE OF PLANET X
Their 13th one.

Press info: “Boasting the duo’s most varied and expressive musical approach so far,
The Demise Of Planet X charts, critiques and satirises our times, while offering a universal cry of anger and release of energy that pushes against the encroaching cultural darkness.

Contemplating the world coming to an end not with a big bang but in slowly rising tide of irritating mundanity, The Demise Of Planet X strikes back with vivid sonics, acerbic words, enveloping atmospheres and a engaging wit across 13 tracks that will move hearts, minds and feet.’

Jason Williamson: “The Demise Of Planet X represents a life lived under immense uncertainty, shaped by mass trauma,” declares frontman Jason Williamson. “When we wrote the last album, it was about stagnation, a country that felt like a lifeless corpse.

Three years later, that corpse has been split open by war, genocide, and the lingering psychological fallout of Covid, whilst social media has mutated into a grotesque, twisted
form of digital engineering. It feels like we’re living among the ruins. A multi-layered abomination etched into our collective psyche.”

DIY Magazine says: “If not already a fan, what would one get out of ‘The Demise of Planet X’ that doesn’t already feature in their back catalogue, beside a few more timely references? Much like the state of the country they wax lyrical about, Sleaford Mods are stuck in a rut.”

TUTV: Mods by numbers, sonically and thematically. 4 out of the 5 singles (listen below)
are the LP’s highlights. The rest of the tunes vary from good to mediocre, and that’s not enough to have a memorable album for the future. Their razor-sharp way of filleting all sorts of social injustice still is spot-on, but my hungry taste for infectious hip-hop wallops
is not satisfied.

– ELITEST G.O.A.T. –

All 5 singles


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ALBUM


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SLEAFORD MODS – Rap Punk Poets Release Their 13th Album ‘THE DEMISE OF PLANET X’ Next January

Posted on by JL

12 December 2025

Band: SLEAFORD MODS
Who: Rap-punk poetry duo featuring
voice Jason Williamson and instrumentalist
Andrew Fearn.

Album: THE DEMISE OF PLANET X
Their 13th one.
Release: 16 Jan 2026.

Press info: “Boasting the duo’s most varied and expressive musical approach so far,
The Demise Of Planet X charts, critiques and satirises our times, while offering a universal cry of anger and release of energy that pushes against the encroaching cultural darkness.

Contemplating the world coming to an end not with a big bang but in slowly rising tide of irritating mundanity, The Demise Of Planet X strikes back with vivid sonics, acerbic words, enveloping atmospheres and a engaging wit across 13 tracks that will move hearts, minds and feet.’

Jason Williamson: “The Demise Of Planet X represents a life lived under immense uncertainty, shaped by mass trauma,” declares frontman Jason Williamson. “When we wrote the last album, it was about stagnation, a country that felt like a lifeless corpse.

Three years later, that corpse has been split open by war, genocide, and the lingering psychological fallout of Covid, whilst social media has mutated into a grotesque, twisted
form of digital engineering. It feels like we’re living among the ruins. A multi-layered abomination etched into our collective psyche.”

Check out the 4 singles shared so far, below.

– THE GOOD LIFE –

– MEGATON –

– BAD SANTA –

– NO TOUCH –

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Image Of The Day – NO WAR NO DEATH

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Sharp-tongued rap-punk poets SLEAFORD MODS
released a new single a couple of weeks ago, called
MEGATON. Watch/listen below.

It’s the harbinger for their new, 13th full-length. Details TBA.
And as it happens they’ll go on the road to promote the record.

The accompanying poster’s artwork says it all. NO WAR, NO DEATH.

ALL DATES – Europe/UK/Ireland – right HERE.

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JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 38 Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

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In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.

ALL TOGETHER

The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK

Band: SLEAFORD MODS
Who: Rap-punk poetry duo featuring
voice Jason Williamson and instrumentalist
Andrew Fearn.

Track: MEGATON
First new music since the release
of their 12th LP ‘UK Grim‘ 2 years ago.

“Megaton, No War No Death! Such is the weight of trauma, guilt and powerlessness
in privileged societies that we squirm like an overloaded petri dish full of algae fed
by the algorithm.

Everything is wrong and everything as a reaction is argued to be right, and in
this we give birth to behaviours that smother solidarity and cause mass waves
of haemorrhaging alienation while the world quietly collapses offscreen.”

The mods on a characteristic,
sharp-cutting roll. Chop. Chop.

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Band: CARDINALS
Who: Young Irish indies

Track: MASQUERADE
Title track from their
upcoming debut album.

“The song is definitely one of the more intimate moments on the album.
The vulnerability it reveals is uncomfortable and that’s where we wanted
to be when we were writing the songs on the record.”

Poignant slo-mo torch jam.
Spellbinding. Spine-tingling.

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Band: STEREOLAB
Who: Anglo-French avant-pop
veterans from London.

Track: FED UP WITH YOUR JOB One of two new pieces, that follows
last May’s album Instant Holograms On Metal Film, their first in
15 years.

Jaunty take on the daily
rat work race. It will fit
your stereo perfectly.

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Band: THE NUDE PARTY
Who: 7-piece folk rock collective
originating from North Carolina.

Track: SWEETHEART OF THE RADIO
First single of their 4th album,
named Look Who’s Back.

Shaun Couture (guitar/vocals): “This song is about a truck driver who is so lonely he falls
in love with a country singer on the radio. I’ve always been fascinated with truck drivers, and
as a touring musician, our lives are not that far off from a trucker’s.”

Vocal country elation.
Let’s hit the road.

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Band: THE LEMONHEADS
Who: Songsmith vet Evan Dando‘s band,
for almost 4 decades and 11 LPs

Track: TOGETHERNESS IS ALL I’M AFTER

Newest single from their 12th album, baptized Love Chant
recorded in Brazil where Dando lives now. It lands on Oct 24th.

Dando delivers another
inspirative and sensitive
reflection.

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