Chalk have shared a brand-new single, ‘Get Fucked’ – you can listen to it below.
The ferocious latest offering from the Belfast dance-punk duo and former NME Cover stars hears vocalist Ross Cullen shun the mundanity of modern life as he heads to the club.
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“Get a job/ Go to work/ Feels right/ Get yourself a new apartment, seems nice/ Au revoir, get your body on the floor/ Get fucked/ Get fucked/ Get fucked,” he tells the listener over an industrial-sounding instrumental.
“Cya later, cya later on the floor/ See the light don’t know what you need it for/ Go to work/ Get a job/ Get fucked/ Get divorced/ Get yourself a new god.”
Cullen repeatedly barks his demands towards the end of the cut, with his delivery and the techno-inspired soundscape becoming more brutal.
‘Get Fucked’ sees Chalk team up with Irish producer Kettama. “We met Kettama (Evan) last year at our London show at Village Underground and ended up being big fans of each other’s work,” the band explained.
“‘Get Fucked’ was going to be on our album but we didn’t work it out in time and so it sat for a while until we worked on it with Evan, who gave it a new lease of life from the demo to the track.”
The relentless, strobe-heavy official music video comes ahead of the single arriving on streaming platforms tomorrow (Friday July 3). Tune in here:
‘Get Fucked’ follows on from Chalk’s acclaimed debut studio album, ‘Crystalpunk’, which was released in March. NME gave the record a glowing five-star review, hailing it as “a knockout collection of arresting dance-punk”. The LP has since been named as one of NME‘s best albums of 2026 so far.
Chalk are set to play a headline show at the Electric Ballroom in London on July 24. Find any remaining tickets here.
Speaking to NME for The Cover earlier this year, Cullen explained: “We always felt like we belonged to a punk sound and an electronic sound, but we maybe struggled to articulate what that was for ourselves. But when we came up with ‘Crystalpunk’, it felt like an umbrella term that this genre of music we were making could live under.”
Multi-instrumentalist Benedict Goddard added: “We wanted to push every aspect with the album. If there’s a super industrial techno track, then it needs to go heavier; if we’re gonna make more of a rock-leaning song, then let’s throw our hat in the ring and put a big chorus on it. That guiding principle of pushing things further affected everything.”
Chalk created an exclusive playlist to accompany their Cover interview, titled ‘Songs To Walk Down The Aisle To’. It featured tracks you might not typically find on a wedding playlist, by acts such as Nine Inch Nails, Death Grips, 2hollis and The Rapture.