Gallus - Cool To Drive [EP] (2025) [Hi-Res]

GALLUS have announced a new EP!

Titled Cool To Drive, the upcoming EP from the Glasgow-based indie punk band is the follow-up to 2023’s We Don’t Like The People We’ve Become, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Marshall Records.

The upcoming EP was produced, mixed, and mastered by Blair Crichton of DEAD PONY. “We’re leaning much further into the punk end of the spectrum, and it feels very natural to us,” comments guitarist Eamon Ewins. “The energy in our live performances has always been there, but we feel that with this EP, our music is at its most visceral and raw. The lyrics are also written from the first-person perspective of semi-fictional characters. That decision was never conscious but plays to Barry‘s strengths as a former actor. The character-driven nature of it makes the EP almost feel like a mini-series.”

Alongside the announcement of the new EP, GALLUS have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming EP; Just Desserts. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming EP, following on from Depressed Beyond Tablets, which was released back in December last year.

Speaking about the new song, vocalist Barry Dolan shares, “the title is taken from a fictitious band Eamon used to tweet about, giving updates about the various reasons they’ve had to pull out of all-day festivals and zine launch parties etc; a kind of aspirational, pretentious post-punk band whose failings were usually caused by their highly middle-class problems.

As far as our experiences with the song, we wanted to highlight the tediousness of the music industry as one becomes ‘neck deep in their twenties.’ We believe today’s concept of ‘new sleaze for the 20s’ will face trial like the indie-sleaze era of the early 2000s; it’s a perpetual cycle, and we’ve ‘seen it all before, and no one asked for more.’ We wanted to distil all the most unlikable elements of the bands we’ve encountered, the music industry, and ourselves into Just Desserts to poke fun at the whole game.”