Severe Girls arrive with the power punk of 'Fill My Head'

Emergent power-punk melodists, Severe Girls, release infectious college radio rock single: FILL MY HEAD

Former drummer with Thurston Moore, Infinite Bisous, Aldous RH and Francis Lung hits a frenetic seam of riffy, alt-rock energy

Severe Girls – Fill My Head

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From the upcoming EP, Another Night – Fri 17 October 2025

BANDCAMP / YOUTUBE

Out of the hinterlands between Manchester and Liverpool come SEVERE GIRLS, conveying the simultaneously loose and precision-tooled sounds of infectious, laissez-faire, college radio punk over four, irresistible minutes of new single, FILL MY HEAD. Fine detail meets energetic abandon in the hands of songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Richardson, elbowing his way into the realms of Buzzcocks, The Replacements, Guided By Voices and Wipers laden with more hooks than a fisherman’s tackle box.

Taking his time to realise what he calls “a good time band who toe the line somewhere between 80s American college rock, power pop and modern alternative indie”, Richardson’s genre experimentations as Severe Girls follow his storied musical past as a session musician. Beached in London as a drummer for Pale Seas, adding to previous percussive partnerships with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Temple Songs, Pink Teens, and Wu Lyf’s Francis Lung, amongst numerous and notable others, the Glasgow-born, North-West-raised musician set about unfolding ideas and demos that turned into singles and sporadic live appearances. 2022’s debut release, Ghosts, was left hanging as a ripe morsel for two years before Richardson returned with T6 in summer 2024.

Unrushed and unorthodox patterns of releasing continue with Fill My Head as the Bandcamp and YouTube-only release strikes indie paydirt, suffusing the unreachable edge of the permanent outsider with ear-popping, radio-ready songcraft. Fill My Head pounds its way off the playlist of Severe Girls’ debut EP, Another Night, which is set for release on Fri 17 October 2025.

Richardson says of the track:

“’Fill My Head’ is a bit about questioning religion, or a belief in something ‘greater’, and a bit about egos and about intrusive thoughts. They could all be the same thing, right? Whatever it might be, it has a grip on you, emotionally. A kind of omnipresence that slips into your thoughts and lives there, rent-free.”

Sharing in the Severe Girls joy with three other musicians - Jon Hughes (guitar), Chris Clayden (bass) and Mike Duckworth (drums) - the band’s live appearances have been and continue to be concentrated in Manchester. Having tiptoed onto the underside of line-ups to find the correct settings over the last year, the band supports British Birds at Gulliver’s, Manchester on Thu 25 September 2025. They go on to play an all-day music festival at Salford’s Old Pint Pot on the Sat 27 September 2025.

In mid-October, they perform a special, limited access EP launch show at Low Four Studio in Manchester with an equally limited run of tapes to mark the occasion.