Last Friday saw the release of Hello Beautiful, the first new material from Dodgy in almost a decade. In September 2016, when they put out What Are We Fighting For?, the country had just committed economic suicide and voted to leave the European Union. However, little did we know at the time but Messrs. Clark, Miller & Priest had already read the nation's tealeaves 20 years earlier when the plaintive U.K.R.I.P. dominated Side 2 of their 1996 long player Free Peace Sweet.
Countless Prime Ministers later and with the country on its knees fretting more about small boats than child poverty, we've reached that point in proceedings where if we don't get some good news soon we're gonna do something we'll regret. Cue Dodgy, then, with a taster from the new album (due next May): Hello Beautiful is a paean to optimism; to life; to yourself. And it's crammed full of those infectious guitar hooks and sumptuous harmonies you fell in love with on The Dodgy Album (their 1993 debut) and is absolutely guaranteed to put a great big fuck off smile on your face. That I can promise.
Dodgy - Hello Beautiful (2025)
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