Stupid Boy: 1000 Rabbits turn the tour into a shout
The London post-punk band's first release since Are We Friends Yet? starts quiet and ends with everyone singing at once.
BY JOLT Staff · NOV 3 2026 · 1 min readStupid Boy opens quiet and ends with the whole band shouting. It is 1000 Rabbits' first new music since the debut EP Are We Friends Yet?, out earlier this year on Young, and it is built to be played at people.
The London post-punk band spent the summer earning it: sold out headline shows in London, Berlin, Glasgow, Cologne and Rotterdam, festival sets at The Great Escape, Latitude, Reeperbahn and C2C. Two earlier singles, Virgin Soil and Rubik's Cube, did the groundwork.
“It’s cathartic, and sharing that feeling with an audience and seeing it resonate has been magical.”
The song came out of that run, written to fold the live show into four minutes: singing all together, getting into the crowd, dancing and shouting. Cuan Roche directed the video.
You can hear the plan working. The opening is clenched and low. The crescendos are forceful where they could have been tidy, and a violin pushes into them. That violin is the one decision here that sounds like an idea instead of a reflex. Nobody is out front singing lead, so the chorus arrives as mass rather than as a hook.
It sits nearer Garbage than to the band's post-punk neighbours: guitar, gang vocal, a chorus that draws its weight from the number of people hitting it. This is for anyone who has stood in a small room while a band worked out what it was for.
What does not work is the size of the bet. Everything is staked on the last stretch, and with no room to answer it that final minute leans on volume where an argument would do. The quiet start promises a closeness the ending never comes back to.
Three and a half. A band finding out what it can do by doing it too loudly in front of people. The violin and the gang vocal are worth keeping. The next one has to prove there is more here than the release.
