ME REX have new music on the agenda for 2026. The emotive, plucky, poetic London indie rockers released their album Giant Elk in 2023 and followed it with the excellent Smilodon EP in 2024 ("Goodbye Forever" is one of my favorite ME REX songs in years). Today they've given us "Angel Hammer," the first taste from an upcoming project to be revealed.
The track marks an interesting shift for ME REX. At times it features a hard-pounding beat and harsh, piercing keyboard melodies that remind me of Animal Collective, yet Myles McCabe is still thoughtfully pouring his heart out, and the band's signature emo/indie hybrid remains at the core of the songwriting. A sample of his writing: "You used to meet me in freefall fall like a singing swarm of seraphim/ The last second miracle you clung to since you stumbled in."
Here's McCabe with some background on the song:
The category is "Things That Fall." I got sober when I was 20, I'm 34 now and I've been looking back on the years leading up to that and the sense of inevitability I felt about the way I was living. Between myself and a host of people I knew it seemed like there was always some kind of increasingly major mental or emotional crisis happening to one of us. For me this culminated in surviving a serious fall I had in blackout with relatively minor injuries. This song is reflecting on what led up to that accident and the things I saw happening to the people around me in those years.
Listen below.
ME REX also have some tour dates coming up in England. Here are those:
