Indie/dance pioneers THE FARM return with 'That Feeling' - OUT NOW

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Resurgent indie-dance crossover pioneers, The Farm challenge the grandeur delusion on latest earworm single…

The Farm release another infectious cut from Let The Music (Take Control), their first album in over 30 years set for release in June

Players in pop culture history since the 1980s, the band behind All Together Now and Groovy Train, feel the funk on just their second single of 2025

The Farm – That Feeling

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From the album Let The Music (Take Control)

Released Fri 20 June 2025 via Modern Sky

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Music, film, fashion and community have always been at the heart and soul of Liverpool’s endlessly inquisitive dance/indie crossover pioneers, The Farm, and the re-energised five-piece strike a fresh beat based on familiar themes on That Feeling – OUT NOW. Only the third hint of what lies in store on their upcoming album, Let The Music (Take Control), their first in over three decades, the band that helped define the 90’s British indie/dance boom use the track to dig into delusion and disinformation.

Inspired in parts by Chic, following guitarist, Keith Mullin’s illuminating encounter with the funk magician, Nile Rodgers at Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, as well as singer and lyricist, Peter Hooton, wearily watching as the world kindles into flame, That Feeling’s beat-driven, chorus-orientated journey arrives at a place of hope in spite of disillusion.

“The idea behind this song is trying to get into the heart and mind of someone who things they are the future of the world,” says Hooton. “People are more easily duped by false narratives in this day and age, falling into the obvious traps. We need to better understand each other to work out why.”

Truly stationed at the centre of cultural history, as evidenced in a recent interview by Hooton, in which he casually revealed he was in the room when The Clash decided to reform (yet, subsequently failed to do so), the band’s five-decade history weaves through No.1 albums, high-profile justice campaigns, defining the ‘terrace look’ adopted by an entire generation and influential inroads into film and TV. Bassist, Carl Hunter, has enjoyed a life in moving pictures, including directing Bill Nighy on 2018’s Sometimes Always Never and drummer, Roy Boulter is a BAFTA-nominated screenwriter.

Released on multiple formats including limited and standard edition vinyl, CD and digital formats, Let The Music (Take Control) is released via Modern Sky on Fri 20 June 2025. The Farm’s return to the studio was inspired by renewed creativity, a sense of lost time and the rapturous response to live versions of new material. Being added to BBC Radio 2’s playlist on the release of 2024’s self-released single, Feel The Love, the original ‘heyday’ line-up decided to attend to unfinished business.

Produced in the company of Mike Cave (The Charlatans, Bloc Party) in Liverpool, the future-facing album has been preceded by another, two previous singles, Forever And Ever and Moment In Time. The Farm’s last album was 1994's US-only release of Hullabaloo, following up their career-to-date defining breakthrough and UK No.1 album, Spartacus, which wrote the enduring tracks, All Together Now and Groovy Train onto the list of unforgotten and unforgettable all-time classic singles.

The Farm’s absence from the list of new releases hasn’t meant being absent from the stage, with the band continuing to tour over the last decade. Maintaining that pace around the release of Let The Music (Take Control) and into the summer, all confirmed

UK and Ireland shows for 2025 are as follows:

Sat 7 Jun – Doncaster, Donny Fest 2025

Fri 25 Jul - Killimy, Forest Festival 2025

Sun 24 Aug - Darlington, The Darlington Arena

Sat 25 Oct – Manchester, Bowlers, Adored 2025

For the most up-to-date ticket information, as well as album pre-orders and bundles visit https://thefarmmusic.co.uk/

Completed by Steve Grimes (guitar/keys), The Farm hold a distinct place in British popular culture, exporting the North of England’s world famous dance-laced indie scene, alongside Stone Roses and Happy Mondays and showing how rooted they had become in Balearic dance culture via their appearance in the era-defining documentary A Short Film About Chilling.

Produced by Madness front man, Suggs, the release of their cover of The Monkees’ Stepping Stone in 1990 provided the momentum for the band’s rise to chart prominence in the months that followed.

Renowned campaigners for justice, not least in connection with the city of Liverpool’s search for truth and justice in connection with the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster, the band formed The Justice Tonight Band with Mick Jones of The Clash in 2011, going on to support Stone Roses at their huge reunion shows. Evolving under the weight of significant momentum to become The Justice Collective a year later, The Farm were the catalyst for the 2012 Christmas UK Singles Chart No 1 cover of He Ain’t Heavy, with collaborators as diverse as Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson, Paloma Faith, Paul Heaton, Robbie Williams and football legend, Kenny Dalglish.

In 2014 they teamed up with the Premier League to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the WWI Christmas Truce, raising money for the Red Cross/Shorncliffe Trust by recording a version of All Together Now with artists such as Clean Bandit, Gorgon City, Suggs, The Proclaimers, Mick Jones and Leo Sayer.

Written about the 1914 Christmas Day Armistice which saw British and German troops lay down weapons for a game of football, All Together Now stands as The Farm’s biggest hit to date, reaching No.4 on the UK Singles Chart. It has been covered on numerous occasions, remaining an enduring message of hope across generations.