Do Nothing Announce Second Album ‘Friend World’

After three years of silence, Do Nothing have announced their second album. Friend World arrives on November 6 via Submarine Cat Records. The Nottingham band recorded it at JT Soar, a venue and studio in the city, with Folly Group’s Louis Milburn producing and mixing.

It follows 2023’s Snake Sideways, an album shaped, by the band’s own account, by an urge to confound expectations. “With the first record there was a feeling of trying to move away from what people expected of us,” frontman Chris Bailey said. “This time we felt much freer. We didn’t feel any pressure to make a departure. We could follow whatever ideas felt exciting.”

The first preview is “Stars,” one of the album’s oldest tracks and a pop-inclined song. Bailey describes it as a meditation on fame and ambition—“about people who are famous, and all the ways in which it doesn’t make them happy people”—but adds that its core is finding a connection so absorbing that former drives lose their grip. The full tracklist runs to 11 songs.