SCALER announce details of highly anticipated new album Endlessly
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Announce UK tour for November 2025
Hear / share “Salt” (ft. Akiko Haruna) HERE
New album out 26th September via Black Acre
Credit: Harry Steel
Today, Bristol’s SCALER return with details of their highly anticipated new album Endlessly. The news follows the release of “Broken Entry” in April and their signing to Black Acre (home to Commodo, Sully, Karen Nyame KG, Waldo’s Gift, Crimewave, and more), who will release the album on 26th September 2025.
Made up of Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth and Nick Berthoud, alongside visual artist Jason Baker. SCALER have been hailed as “Bristol’s next national breakthrough” by critics (The Guardian) and “legends in the making” by fans (per the always-honest YouTube comment section). Endlessly is their second album, formally, following 2022’s acclaimed Void, which earned praise for their “perfect synergy between intensity and precision” (Pitchfork) and led to a 2023 double A-side single with Daniel Avery (“Loam” / “New Symbols”) that expanded on their more club-wise impulses– in keeping with a slew of remix projects shared over the years, featuring boundary-hoppers such as Laurel Halo, Bruce, and Azu Tiwaline. It also meant more chances to play out their formidable, now-stuff-of-legend live show, including an ArcTanGent headline, a Shangri-La shutdown at Glastonbury, and performances at Boomtown, Green Man, End Of The Road, ADE, Nuits Sonores, and many more.
Powerful and immediate, like a raised pulse under taut skin, Endlessly tugs at emotional threads and sonic touchpoints that feel tangled up – deliberately so – in the musical heritage of their city. There are traces of trip-hop, drum‘n’bass and experimental electronic, plus flashes of pupil-dilating techno, metal and drill, all carried by immense low-end pressure and tempered by more subdued, spatial stretches that drift and sprawl. Voices layer and loop, instrumentals do the same.
Contributors from Bristol and beyond, including Akiko Haruna, Art School Girlfriend, Tlya X An, Shadow Stevie, Cold Light’s ELDON and “techno wizard” Thomas Ridley, add new colour to the band’s darkened palette and point to the left-turns they’re leaning into. Today’s new single “Salt”, with Haruna, is a prime example combining digitally manipulated vocal melodies, sweeping glitched out synths, restrained hi-speed rhythms, and distorted bass.
Speaking on the single, the band says “collaboration was central to the creation of this album, and Akiko was the first artist we reached out to. We’ve been long-time fans of her vocals, sound design, and production, and working together has been something we’ve wanted to do for a long time, so we’re thrilled it finally came to life.
We had this sparse and haunting track that felt like the perfect canvas for Akiko. From the moment we heard her initial ideas, we knew we had something special and couldn’t wait to share it.”
HEAR / STREAM “SALT” FT. AKIKO HARUNA HERE
Speaking on the themes behind the single, Haruna says “Salt is a reflection on the cycles a person can get trapped in when shame becomes both a punishment and a release. When guilt weighs heavy, they may chase comfort in familiar patterns: seeking control through self-destruction, intensity over numbness, and recognition at any cost. This track came from piecing together quiet warnings, learning to trust intuition and witnessing what might happen when someone confuses feeling seen with being exposed.
Shame can threaten a sense of identity, preying on the need for connection and belonging. It’s avoided through blame, denial, or withdrawal, or intentionally sought for catharsis – a tool to “pay off” guilt or atone for past wrongs.
Exposing the rejected parts of ourselves can feel like reclaiming control. Shame can affirm negative self-beliefs and create a sense of consistency. When self-inflicted, it can feel safer than external judgement, offering intensity, familiarity, or a way to break through emotional numbness. Ultimately, it can feel more ‘real’ than acceptance, creating an inner conflict: fear and relief in rejection followed by resentment toward those who accept us.”
WATCH / SHARE THE VISUALISER FOR “SALT” HERE
Having just finished a packed-out EU tour with And So I Watch You From Afar and Robocobra Quartet, the band have also today announced details of a UK headline tour for November 2025 – their first since 2023. Dates are as follows:
LIVE DATES:
2nd August – Bristol, UK – Queens Square supporting IDLES
6th November – London, UK – Electrowerkz
11th November – Glasgow, UK – Room 2
12th November – Newcastle, UK – Cluny 2
13th November – Manchester, UK – Pink Room
14th November – Sheffield, UK Sidney & Matilda Galler
17th November – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
18th November – Leeds, UK – Brudenell
19th November – Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
Tickets will go on sale 6th June – more info HERE
(Guestlist available upon request)
Endlessly is an album made to be experienced as an album: an enthralling journey from start to finish, something to soak in. An opportunity for SCALER to sharpen the tools they’ve used most – the instincts of rock, metal and hardcore, the language of dance music – while taking a more intentional approach. That was a key focus early on, Hill explains: “to take our ingredients and package them in a more listenable format.”.
That ‘early on’ was some three years ago now. Most of Endlessly took shape in the time that followed – save for a few ideas that had been loose in the SCALER ether for a little while – with the bulk recorded at Bristol’s legendary The Louisiana, an intimate, independent venue with a basement studio. They worked with close friend (and former live band member) Alfie Tyson-Brown, an “engineer extraordinaire” with whom they share a “kind of telepathic relationship”. Longtime collaborator Sean Oakley handled mixing, with photographer Sandra Ebert joining Baker in bringing its artwork to life.
The communal nature of the album comes in many ways as a direct response to how Void came together. That period can be summed up, in short, as locked down, apart and in what they describe as “incredibly hostile” conditions. Endlessly, though, feels more settled – excitingly so. Less a calling card for the IRL SCALER experience (though their shows still come hotly tipped) and more a postcard from where they’re headed next. That broader horizon, no ceiling in sight. “This record is kind of the one we wanted to make the whole time,” says Rushforth. And maybe the one they always needed to.
“Endlessly truly feels like our first real album,” concludes the band. “Unlike our debut, which was made in isolation during Covid lockdowns, with this record we set out to embrace collaboration and bring people together. As a result, this record is shaped by many minds, working collectively to find cohesion between the diverse art and music that inspires us. It’s our most expansive, dynamic, and fully realised body of work to date, and one we’re incredibly proud of.”
Endlessly is out 26th September via Black Acre – pre-order HERE
TRACKLISTING:
1.quiet when it speaks
2. Salt ft. Akiko Haruna
3. Broken Entry
4. Mirage ft. Art School Girlfriend
5. (yearn)
6. Evolve ft. Tlya X An
7. Cold Storage
8. Sinking In ft. Shadow Stevie
9. Salvation ft. ELDON
10. Ravine
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