Sleaford Mods have dropped a new expanded edition of their latest album ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ featuring nine previously unheard tracks and a video for ‘Cato’ which features Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins.
The 13th album from Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson featured collaborations from the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Aldous Harding, Big Special and more, and reached Number Six in the UK charts. Now, the Nottingham noise duo have now dropped an expanded version of the album, featuring nine never-before-released tracks. All the songs were written at the same time as the original tracklist, but remained as unreleased demos until now.
New releases include ‘Cato’ – another song with Sue Tompkins, who also featured on previous single ‘No Touch’. It didn’t make it onto the record as the duo didn’t think it fit with the rest of the songs, but did remain on hold as the duo liked it enough to declare that the Life Without Buildings frontwoman “could join the band”.
“It was so brilliant to be asked to do another song with Jason and Andrew,” Tompkins shared. “I thought the song was very catchy – and throbby! It’s got a pace and a relentlessness about it, and singing opposite Jason almost feels like a duet. He sings, then I sing. It goes back and forth, all the while with Andrew’s throbby music underneath. The panic of ‘Cato’ about to spring out!”
Check it out above, along with a new music video directed by Tompkins.
Other new tracks include an alternative version of ‘The Good Life’, which includes different lyrics and was recorded before Gwendoline Christie added her explosive vocals, ‘The Return Of The Bin White Dukes’, which the duo describe as the precursor to ‘Don Draper’ and energetic punk track ‘Give Em What They Want’ which the duo liked but didn’t think fit with the rest of the album.
“I guess it’s like a curry, it always tastes better the next day,” said Williamson of the songs that didn’t make the album. “You listen to these tracks in the studio, and you don’t think it fits.
“Then you come back to them again six months later, and you realise you were on to something, so I am really pleased we can now put all these songs out into the world for people to hear. I also hope the demos give everyone who dug ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ a better idea of what we put into making that record because it was quite a ride for both of us.”
They continued: “We ended up with loads of demos that are good and virtually finished, that we didn’t take forward for the record. They give you a good idea of the process behind the album, though they all possess something in their own right too.”
NME gave ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ a four-star review, writing: “Sleaford Mods are never in the same stagnation as the doldrums that inspire them.
“Williamson’s powerless rage bristles with enough humour, brutal honesty and inventive imagery to keep you guessing, while multi-instrumentalist Andrew Fearn – stepping up as co-producer on this record – adds flashes of genre-clashing colour and light to make this the band’s most musically ambitious and diverse record yet.”
The duo are currently underway with their European tour, which kicked off last week and continues in Lausanne, Switzerland this weekend (Sunday October 25). Other shows run throughout the rest of the year, and the tour picks up in the US in Spring 2027. Visit here for tickets.
Sleaford Mods tour dates are:
OCTOBER 2026
25 – Lausanne – Les Docks
28 – Helsinki – House of Culture
30 – Vilnius – Kablys
NOVEMBER 2026
1 – Warsaw – Stodola
3 – Vienna – Arena
4 – Ljubljana – Kino Siska
6 – Istanbul – MIX Festival
7 – Athens – Floyd
28 – Amsterdam – Ziggo Dome, supporting The Prodigy
DECEMBER 2026
11 – Parma – Barezzi Festival
MARCH 2027
31 – New York – Mercury Lounge
APRIL 2027
2 – Knoxville – Big Ears
4 – Boise – Treefort
6 – Portland – Wonder Ballroom
Sleaford Mods will also be headlining a new ‘Gig For Gaza’ at London’s Troxy this weekend (Saturday October 24), with Baxter Dury and more also on the line-up.
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