Sleaford Mods Announce New Album, Share Video for New Tune “The Good Life”
The Demise of Planet X Due Out January 16, 2026 through Tough Commerce; New Tune Options Gwendoline Christie + Massive Particular
Oct 21, 2025
Images by Nick Waplington
Sleaford Mods have introduced a brand new album, The Demise of Planet X, and shared its newest single, “The Good Life,” which options Gwendoline Christie and Massive Particular. The Demise of Planet X is due out January 16, 2026 through Tough Commerce. Under, take a look at the video for “The Good Life,” adopted by the album particulars.
Sleaford Mods are Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn.
Christie is an actress identified for Severance, Sport of Thrones, and Wednesday. That is her foray into music. The album additionally options former Life With out Buildings frontwoman Sue Tompkins, Aldous Harding, soul singer Liam Bailey, and dirt emcee Snowy.
Williamson had this to say concerning the album in a press launch: “The Demise of Planet X represents a life lived underneath immense uncertainty, formed by mass trauma. After we wrote the final album, it was about stagnation, a rustic that felt like a dull corpse. Three years later, that corpse has been cut up open by conflict, genocide, and the lingering psychological fallout of Covid while social media has mutated right into a grotesque, twisted type of digital engineering. It looks like we’re dwelling among the many ruins. A multi-layered abomination etched into our collective psyche.”
He provides: “I don’t need to pat myself on the again whereas the remainder of the world falls to shit, however we’re actually pleased with The Demise of Planet X. The music and concepts are recent and it’s in your face, but it surely pays to place your glasses on to have a look at the substances.”
Of the brand new single, Williamson says: “’The Good Life’ talks about slagging bands off and the enjoyment and distress that causes me. I’m asking myself why am I slagging bands off? Why is it a unbroken factor with me? My internal voices are delivered to life by Gwendoline and Massive Particular, debating that inside rigidity between me having fun with a very good life or submitting to the mayhem.”
The Demise of Planet X options “Megaton,” a single the band shared in September with all earnings benefiting the UK charity Battle Baby. “Megaton” was one in all our Songs of the Week.
Final yr Sleaford Mods teamed up with Sizzling Chip for 2 new collaborative songs, “Nom Nom Nom” and “Cat Burglar,” with their launch additionally benefiting Battle Baby. “Nom Nom Nom” was one in all our Songs of the Week.
Sleaford Mods’ final album, UK GRIM, got here out in 2023 on Tough Commerce,
Take heed to our interview with Sleaford Mods in a 2021 episode of our podcast.
Donate on to Battle Baby UK right here.
Or donate to their U.S. fundraising arm, Kids in Battle, right here.
The Demise of Planet X Tracklist:
1. The Good Life (feat. Gwendoline Christie + Massive Particular)
2. Double Diamond
3. Elitest G.O.A.T. (feat. Aldous Harding)
4. Megaton
5. No Contact (feat. Sue Tompkins)
6. Dangerous Santa
7. The Demise Of Planet X
8. Don Draper
9. Gina Was
10. Shoving the Pictures
11. Flood the Zone (feat. Liam Bailey)
12. Kill Checklist (feat. Snowy)
13. The Unwrap
Sleaford Mods 2026 UK/IE Tour Dates:
February 6 – Glasgow @ Barrowland Ballroom
February 7 – Manchester @ Academy
February 12 – Leeds @ O2 Academy
February 13 – Liverpool @ O2 Academy
February 14 – Cardiff @ Nice Corridor
February 19 – Dublin @ 3Olympia Theatre
February 20 – Belfast @ Limelight
February 21 – Cork @ Cyprus Avenue
February 26 – Oxford @ O2 Academy
February 27 – Nottingham @ Rock Metropolis
February 28 – Nottingham @ Rock Metropolis
March 5 – Bristol @ Beacon
March 6 – Brighton @ Dome
March 7 – London @ O2 Academy Brixton
