Hard-Fi are back with their long-awaited brand-new studio album ‘Sweating Someone Else’s Fever’, their first in 15 years, due out on 19 June 2026 via V2 Records.

Written and recorded throughout 2025 in their synonymous ex-taxi-office-turned studio, Cherry Lips, Hard-Fi’s new album captures a band that sounds both reflective and re-energised. Produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White, the record looks out at a fractured present and paints it in bold, urgent strokes. It carries the same sharp social commentary that defined their breakthrough debut ‘Stars of CCTV’, now delivered with fresh perspective, new sonic textures and the hard-earned freedom of a band creating entirely on their own terms.

‘Sweating Someone Else’s Fever’ takes its name from an El Salvadorian phrase about refusing to fight battles driven by someone else’s ego. The sentiment reflects a sense of release. This is Hard-Fi unburdened, reunited and making music for the pure joy of playing together again.

Lead single “They Ain’t Your Friends” arrives with suspicious swagger, taking aim at the hollow loyalties of the online age and the performative hypocrisies of the modern music industry, proving that Hard-Fi’s bite remains as sharp as ever.

“At the beginning you could get out there and it was a meritocracy, whereas now it’s basically back to patronage where you have to suck up to the guy who’ll give you some money to write a waltz for his ball,” Archer explains. The track’s birth, however, has a far sweeter story. An amalgamation of two old demos, Archer had left the music on his laptop until his tech-savvy 10-year-old son appeared one day, having found them and stitched them together. “They were in different tempos so a lot sounded like chaos, but every now and then it would be really cool. We did it all properly and suddenly it sounded really fresh. Now he’s going, ‘So where’s my cut?!’” the frontman laughs.

LISTEN TO THE TRACK HERE:

The album follows the band’s reunion sparked during lockdown, when Archer livestreamed Stars of CCTV and was stunned by the warmth of the response. A comeback London show sold out in minutes, reminding the quartet why they started. From there came 2024 EP ‘Don’t Go Making Plans’, and then, naturally, new music.

The band have also announced three huge headline for December alongside a string of summer festival appearances – full details below:

London O2 Academy Brixton, 03 Dec
Birmingham O2 Institute, 04
Manchester O2 Ritz, 05

Tickets on sale Friday (13 March) at 10am from Ticketmaster See Tickets

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE:

Our first new album in 15 years, “Sweating Someone Else’s Fever” is out June 19th. Pre-order it now from our official store for pre-sale access to our December live shows in London, Manchester and Birmingham. Pre-sale starts Wednesday, 11th at 10am GMT. 🦟 https://t.co/QlcheSveLX pic.twitter.com/S8UwQY6OY1

— Hard-Fi💙 (@HARD_FI) March 4, 2026

Hard-Fi ‘Sweating Someone Else’s Fever’ Full Album Tracklisting:

They Ain’t Your Friends
Digo Nada (feat. Mike Kalle)
You Rule My Heart (When The Summer’s Gone)
Humpback Whale
Looking For Fun
A Rose Electric (feat. Krysten Cummings)
Always and Forever (Remastered)
Arise
Ain’t Going Out Tonight (feat. Krysten Cummings)
Now and Then
Don’t Go Making Plans (Remastered)

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