Everyone Says Hi have announced their second album ‘Funny Cos It’s True’. Listen to new single Don’t Underestimate Yourself’ below as well as details of upcoming UK shows.
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The indie supergroup features Nick Hodgson – former main songwriter and drummer in Kaiser Chiefs – as well as ex-Kooks member Pete Denton, Ben Gordon of The Dead 60s, and Glenn Moule of Howling Bells, alongside guitarist Oli Swan.
Sharing its name with a 2002 David Bowie song, the band released their acclaimed self-titled debut record in 2024. Now, Everyone Says Hi have returned with details of its follow-up – which is out on September 25. Pre-order/pre-save here.
The forthcoming ‘Funny Cos It’s True’ was recorded at Hodgson’s home studio, and produced by the musician himself.
According to a press release, the LP contains “11 tracks of intoxicating indie-pop” and finds the group “firmly stepping into their own”. Fans can expect a “hazy retro edge” from the new material, though it is said to sound “distinctly new”.
Everyone Says Hi have rediscovered and reinvented a “classic sound with a heavy dose of infectiously anthemic choruses and a knack for lustrous songcraft” across the album.
The project’s lyrical themes are described as “deep” and “emotional’, tackling the death of Hodgson’s father to Alzheimer’s in 2011, aged 60. Some of the songs were written from the perspective of the musician being a father himself to a young daughter. Another track on the record targets the MAGA movement in the US.
‘Don’t Underestimate Yourself’ is a swirling nod to the 1970s – a decade that inspired the full album – complete with lush strings and guitar. The single arrives with a retro-looking official video – watch above.
“This track is about my daughter, or more specifically a note to my daughter, as she grows up to remind her that she doesn’t have to think she has to change,” Hodgson explained. “She can remain her confident and bold self and tell everyone what to do.”
For ‘Funny Cos It’s True’, Everyone Says Hi adopted a more collaborative creative process than on their debut, with sporadic sessions taking place between May and September 2025.
“It was a big decision to record the whole album in my own studio at home. At first, I was against it because I was stuck in the world of, you need big studios for drums with engineers and assistants, but the result is a record we’re unbelievably proud of,” Hodgson explained.
“The album is inspired by digital loneliness, social media pressure, modern life pressure, questions on what really matters and all that miserable stuff. I am a pretty positive person, though, and I try to pull it back from the brink with humour, hence the title.”
He continued: “I think the approach to recording was informed by a rejection of modern techniques. I feel like with people making music with AI, I want to do the opposite, go more old school, more performance-based.
“And the best thing about recording at home is that when I’m not happy with a vocal for example, I can go back into the studio at midnight in my slippers and sing it again.”
Following support slots with the likes of Neil Young, The Cribs and Feeder, Everyone Says Hi will head out on a run of UK in-store shows this autumn. See the full schedule below, and buy tickets here.
Everyone Says Hi’s UK release show tour dates are:
SEPTEMBER
25 – Wax & Beans, Bury
26 – Crash, Leeds
27 – The Jacaranda, Liverpool
28 – Applestump, Nantwich
29 – Truck, Oxford
30 – Dash The Henge (Brixton), London
OCTOBER
01 – Just Dropped In, Coventry
Speaking to NME in 2024, Hodgson revealed how Everyone Says Hi came to be after releasing his debut solo album, 2018’s ‘Tell Your Friends’.
“I did the solo album, put a song out and Ryan Jarman from The Cribs texted me and said, ‘Do you and your new band want to play to support The Cribs at the Brudenell in Leeds for [annual festive show] Cribsmas?’” he recalled.
“I didn’t have a band, it was just me on that record. I said yes and then I got the band together. We played quite a few shows and it was really good,” Hodgson went on.
“On that first album I played all the instruments and everything and then when I got the band in I realised that this was better. I would play stuff in soundcheck, new ideas, and everyone would just start playing straight away. Everyone was so switched on, I was like, ‘If I make another record, I’m going to call them up immediately’.
“And also Pete the bass player, he lives near me and I bumped into him in the Virgin Active in Crouch End. It’s like an indie gym, The Magic Numbers were in there and loads of others. I used to see him and he was like, ‘Let’s do something together’.”