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Haggard Cat drop explosive new single, I Hate It Here, from upcoming third album

Watch the video for Haggard Cat’s awesome new single I Hate It Here, taken from this May’s long-awaited third album The Pain That Orbits Life.

Haggard Cat drop explosive new single, I Hate It Here, from upcoming third album
Words:
Emily Garner
Photo:
Ruena

Haggard Cat have just unleashed a brilliant new single, I Hate It Here.

The track is set to open up the duo’s third album The Pain That Orbits Life, which is the follow-up to 2020’s Common Sense Holiday and is due out on May 8 via Church Road Records.

“We worked on this album for a very long time,” announce Haggard Cat in a joint statement. “It’s rare that at this stage in your career you get to spend the longest you ever have on a body of work, but this time, not in any small way due to the circumstances surrounding us both in the world and in our own lives, that’s where we found ourselves.

“We definitely didn’t feel it at the time, but now we’re super thankful for the time that fate gave us to create this record. It was a journey of self-reflection and personal growth and what we have arrived at is an album that’s more evolved, more deeply personal and most of all more definitively Haggard Cat than anything that’s come from us before it.

“We’re incredibly proud of this record and we absolutely can’t wait for you to hear it.”

Get your first taste with the excellently-titled I Hate It Here below:

And catch the band live at the following:

Haggard Cat 2026 UK headline tour

May

9 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
14 Manchester Star & Garter
15 Glasgow Hug & Pint
16 Newcastle Head of Steam
28 London The Black Heart
29 Southampton The Joiners
30 Bristol The Louisiana

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