W. H. Lung sign off with a song for their sons
A farewell single, written fast after the band decided to stop, that looks forward.
BY JOLT Staff · OCT 22 2026 · 1 min readW. H. Lung end ten years with a song that keeps walking. "Where Will You Go?" is bright and rippling, handclaps to the front. There is no bitterness in any of it.
Three records across a decade: Incidental Music in 2019, Vanities in 2021, Every Inch of Earth Pulsates in 2024. They recorded this at the Nave with Matt Peel, who worked on the first releases and shaped how the band sounded on record. It is out on Melodic.
“Tom and Dave have both welcomed sons into the world this year so this song is also for Sonny and Oliver”
The lyric moves through the places they lived and toured, Leeds to Todmorden, America to Europe, and it ends on something uncertain. That restlessness is the good idea here. The guitar keeps rippling forward, the handclaps push at it, and the tune is happy to travel.
It is also a song for Sonny and Oliver, the sons Tom and Dave had this year. The band say they want to send them adventure and positivity, and that is the tone you get: a goodbye that argues for the future. It is for anyone who stayed with them this far.
The limited two-track 12" sold at Manchester's Albert Hall on 20 November adds "High Pressure Days". That show, their biggest headline date, is the last in the diary, and the band say they do not know when or whether they will be back.
What does not quite work is the load put on one repeated idea. The song has places to cross, and a single rippling figure and a set of handclaps to cross them with. It nearly holds. A 3.5. Warm, plain, a little stretched, and honest about the ending it is singing.
