Sleaford Mods have released new single’ No Touch’, featuring guest vocals from Sue Tompkins, singer of Scottish indie-rock band Life Without Buildings.

The song is the latest to be taken from Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s forthcoming new album ‘The Demise Of Planet X’, due out on 16 January 2026.

Recorded at Invada Studios in Bristol, Jason and Sue exchanged lyrical ideas through voice notes, later pairing them with Andrew’s minimal beats and music box-like motif to reveal a charming, almost playful quality in the duo’s music.

The single is accompanied by an official music video, shot on location in Dartford, close to the childhood home of Academy Award–winning director Andrea Arnold, known for her work on films such as American Honey, Bird and Wuthering Heights.

WATCH IT HERE:

“Sue sent me some crude voice notes with some ideas she’d done in her kitchen, which I thought were brilliant,” explains Williamson, who was introduced to the Life Without Buildings vocalist by Jeannette Lee and Geoff Travis at Rough Trade Records.

Now home to the Mods, the label released the Glasgow band’s acclaimed debut album ‘Any Other City’ in 2001, which featured ‘The Leanover’, a track that later found widespread organic success on TikTok after singer-songwriter Beabadoobee shared a lip-sync video to the song in 2020.

“Sue came down to the studio in Bristol for two days to record with us. She had a cold at the time, but it added to the track,” continues Williamson. “She had all these little quirky one-liners we put at the start and end of the song. I wrote the chorus, but she expanded on that a little bit with some of her own lyrics, so she was an amazing collaborator. The song itself explores the murky exploits of drug use, the kind of exhibitionism that goes along with it.”

For Tompkins, who has staged a series of successful art shows since Life Without Buildings stopped in 2002, the opportunity to collaborate with Sleaford Mods was too good to turn down.

“When I was asked to record with Sleaford Mods, I just had a sort of immediate, big urge/surge to say yes!” she declares. “Just listening to what Jason sent me initially, the feeling there was some sort of sadness or longing or intimacy or regret, just very emotive to me. So, I just responded in a way which hopefully emphasises that vulnerability.”

To celebrate the album’s release, Sleaford Mods will be interviewed live by the comedian, author and broadcaster Stewart Lee at Rough Trade Nottingham and London’s Rough Trade East in January 2026. Due to demand, on both dates an afternoon and evening Q&A will take place in front of fans.

The band will also head out on a global tour in spring 2026, with UK and Ireland dates scheduled for February/March 2026 – full details below:

Glasgow Barrowland, 06 Feb
Manchester Academy, 07
Leeds O2 Academy, 12
Liverpool O2 Academy, 13
Cardiff Great Hall, 14
Dublin 3Olympia Theatre, 19
Cork Cyprus Avenue, 21
Oxford O2 Academy, 26
Nottingham Rock City, 27
Nottingham Rock City, 28
Bristol Beacon, 05 March
Brighton Dome, 06
London O2 Academy Brixton, 07

Remaining tickets on sale now from Ticketmaster

Image Credit: Nick Waplington / PRESS