Sea Fever has released their new single and video titled ‘Go To Ground’, from their upcoming second album ‘Surface Sound’, dropping May 30th via Cosmic Glue.
A clubhouse feeling designed for the stadium with a retro electro-feel of an early summer and a lasting party, ‘Go To Ground’ gives us that final, fourth single stylized ‘gateway drug’ of what is to come with ‘Surface Sound’.
‘Go To Ground’ experiments with emotions as much as that cross-Euro dance and pop tasted that creates an excitement as much as an anticipation upon that first listen.
“’ GoTo Ground’ is an upbeat, no-nonsense song about ambition and change,” says singer, guitarist, and lyricist Iwan Gronow. “People can be held back by the system, dulled down and told to stay in their place, and this is our call to climb out of the box that people put us in. Positive thinking brought me to Manchester in the first place, grew my self-belief, and I’ve always tried to follow this doctrine. Feelings of being lost change to being more certain about who you are and where you are going.”
About ‘Go To Ground’ & ‘Surface Sound’
Flowering into pure confidence and blooming with possibility, Manchester’s carriers of the synth-powered flame, Sea Fever, sing an up-front and high-octane dance floor anthem for those cast out and lost for belief with the release of their latest single, Go To Ground. Picking up the breadcrumb trail left by pioneers of electronic music past, not least Giorgio Moroder, the tight-knit five-piece foundry of new ideas in sound releases the single as the latest, anticipation-superheating hint of what lies in store on their upcoming second album, Surface Sound.
Having introduced themselves to 2025 with the frosted and cracked winter splendour of Loose Cut at the turn of the year, quickly followed up with bold album opener, Breaking Out, inFebruary, Sea Fever’s declared sense of refreshed cohesion and self-assurance has already seen them out jump the artistic leaps evident on their acclaimed debut, 2021’s Folding Lines. Putting another piece of the puzzle gently into place with the ‘leak’ of the cut-glass-guitars-by-weighty-beats anthem, Shouldn’t Have Been This Way, every minute of the band’s collective, main stage experience is revealed.
Applying equal importance to studio and stage, the band’s select list of live appearances, complete with a wash of bespoke visuals, grows with confirmation of Kendal Calling in their summer calendar. Three, intimate acoustic in-store appearances are also confirmed, in addition to a special hometown album launch show at The Yard in Manchester on Friday, May 30th, 2025.
While bassist Tom Chapman, also a member of New Order, names Go To Ground as the band’s “Italo-Manc disco track… an electronic funky experiment of syncopated beats and anthemic chorus”, the lyrical context reveals sensitivities to be found within the welcome sense of bombastic, wired abandon.
Released on multiple formats, including vinyl, CD, and digital, Surface Sound was written and recorded in studios in Greater Manchester and Cheshire, self-produced by Sea Fever with support from long-term collaborator and PetShop Boys’ musical director, Pete Gleadall. Special vinyl editions of Surface Sound will be packaged with a bonus 7” featuring Explanation, Sea Fever’s collaborative track with the late, much-missed Primal Scream and electronic singer, Denise Johnson.
‘Surface Sound’ Tracklist
- Breaking Out
- Go To Ground
- Shouldn’t Have Been This Way
- Sincere To Some
- Able Eyes
- Thrills, Kicks And Lies
- Triggers Us
- Loose Cut
- Truth Dare
- Seen As A Lifeline
About Sea Fever
SeaFever’s story became public with the release of their first single, Crossed Wires, in 2021. The band gathers the innate, restless artistry, studio craft, and stage experience of Gronow and Chapman alongside New Order guitarist Phil Cunningham, Section 25’s Beth Cassidy and drummer Elliot Barlow, formerly of Brix and The Extricated. Gronow’s own international touring and extensive record-making experience comes as a former member of cult indie heartbreakers, Haven, and a constant by the side of Johnny Marr as his bassist for more than a decade.