Hope As A Coping Mechanism: Marble Colour Vinyl LP

Label: 5DB Records
Release Date: 24th July

Big old muscular post-punk anthems that build gradually and to the point that they can't be ignored, kinda like their namesake but you're more than happy for them to stick around. On their debut album 'Hope As A Coping Mechanism' they pull off that trick of some of post punk and new waves biggest as they take the darkness, the gloomy and make it irressistiblly life-affirming. 

Written in snatches of time in hometown Bristol, recorded in London's 5dB
Studios and produced by Sean Oakley (Georgia, Scaler, Sorry), who flew in
from LA especially for the project, 'Hoping as a Coping Mechanism' is the
strongest display of MOULD's talents yet
In their own words, it's "more focussed, paced and thought-out." Over 13 tracks that
explore the horrors of the outside world and the internal minefield of the brain,
MOULD's debut also hits with the thrills of a brilliant live band who've distilled that
energy to tape.
The title comes from a line taken from the time signature-warping 'Emotive Language'
that distills what it means to be a band in 2026 down to one concise sentiment. "This
has always been the dream, playing with your mates and making good songs and
getting to tour and make records," says Kane. "But the realities of trying to start a band
now, when you're 30 and also have other goals at the same time are hard. We'd be
doing it regardless, but you have to learn a lot."
This duality runs throughout the record, where tracks like lead single 'Float' speak of
"strolling through hellscapes" of social media yet surround their frustrations with the
sort of barbed, visceral musicality that sounds like if Interpol had grown up in gloomy,
rain-soaked Britain. "You're endlessly doom scrolling, past a funny video of a sausage,
and then there's Farage and then there's an ad for something," Joe says of the track.
"That mindnumbing flashy distraction turns you into idiots."