Snapped Ankles announce new album ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’ and share infectious single ‘Raoul’

Snapped Ankles have announced their new album ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’ alongside a new single ‘Raoul’. Find further details below.

The album, which will be the experimental dance-punk quartet’s fourth, is set for release on March 28 via The Leaf Label (pre-save/pre-order here).

It takes its name from Alice Walker’s poetry book Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, with Walker quoted in a press release as writing: “We can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one… hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”

Alongside the announcement, Snapped Ankles have shared a first taste of the LP in the form of the intoxicating disco-punk single ‘Raoul’. The track comes with an equally disorientating music video, filmed on what appears to be a camcorder and filled with creepy Halloween masks. Check it out below.

Snapped Ankles’ ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’ track list is:

1 ‘Pay The Rent’

2 ‘Personal Responsibilities’

3 ‘Raoul’

4 ‘Dancing In Transit’

5 ‘Where’s The Caganer?’

6 ‘Smart World’

7 ‘Hagen Im Garten’

8 ‘摆烂 Bai Lan’

9 ‘Closely Observed’

Snapped Ankles will be playing a string of shows across the UK later this year, which kicks off in Bedford on March 5 and includes a stop at London’s Fabric on May 15. Tickets are available here, and you can find a full list of dates below.

The ‘Hard Times Furious Dancing’ 2025 Tour dates are:

MARCH

5 – Bedford Esquires, Bedford

6 – Junction, Cambridge

7 – Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich

8 – Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester

11 – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield

12 – The Crescent, York

13 – The Georgian Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees

14 – Room 2, Glasgow

15 – Rough Trade, Liverpool

18 – Face Bar, Reading

19 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

20 – Lantern Hall, Bristol

21 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham

22 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham

MAY

9 – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells

10 – Boileroom, Guildford

13 – The Old Market, Brighton

14 – Papillon, Southampton

15 – Fabric, London

16 – The Tin, Coventry

17 – Meltchester Festival @ Projekts Skatepark, Manchester

The forthcoming LP will be their first since 2021’s ‘Forest Of Your Problems’, and, per a press release, sees the London band “trying to make sense of the enduring chaos of modernity”, which includes “technocratic rulers, the cost of living crisis and the weight of even just paying the rent”.