The Cribs have shared a new pop-leaning ballad ‘A Point Too Hard To Make’, along with news of a huge Leeds gig for next summer.
The new single comes from the Wakefield trio’s ninth studio album ‘Selling A Vibe’, which is due for release on Friday January 9, 2026. Speaking about the new track, bassist and vocalist Gary Jarman said it’s about “all that 2000s damage, basically”, and their early days as a band.
“Small-town romantics – years spent longing for connection, escape, excitement – given in abundance, for an entire decade,” he said. “What do you do when the party is over? Where does it leave you? We will let you know if/when we get there. We’ve still got each other though. That’s what this one is about, a bit of a kitchen-sinker, really.”
The band have also announced a huge new show for summer 2026, set to take place at Leeds’ Millennium Square on July 11, 2026 – marking 10 years since the band last performed at the venue, when Sonic Youth legend Thurston Moore memorably joined them.
Pre-sale for the Leeds Millennium Square show begins this Wednesday (29 October) at 9am. General sale begins on Friday 31 October at 9am. You can find your tickets here.
This is an additional show to The Cribs’ already announced spring 2026 tour, where they will be heading to towns and cities including Brighton, Birmingham and Sheffield.
The Cribs’ spring 2026 tour dates are
MARCH 2026
18 – Boiler Shop, Newcastle, UK
20 – Foundry, Sheffield, UK
21 – Albert Hall, Manchester, UK
22 – O2 Institute 1, Birmingham, UK
24 – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
25 – Tramshed, Cardiff, UK
28 – Concorde 2, Brighton, UK
‘A Point To Hard To Make’ follows previous single ‘Summer Seizures’, the first taster of the new record that embraces the band’s “real pop side”.
“We love pop music,” Ryan Jarman told NME. “We always really liked pop melodies and a lot of pop devices, like big hooks and all that stuff. We’ve often – just out of some punk rock guilt – buried it. We focused more on the noisier side. So when we worked with Patrick [Wimberly, producer of Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding, Lil Yachty] , we felt like we had a good set of pop songs.
“We wanted to work with him so he could work on bringing that out. His production was really good for that. He came up with a lot of things that we wouldn’t have necessarily come up with on our own.
Jarman added: “I just didn’t feel like we had anything left to prove, as far as the indie and punk shit goes. We’ve done eight records of that.”
‘Selling A Vibe’, which will be the band’s ninth album, comes over five years on from 2020’s acclaimed ‘Night Network’, which NME called “their best album in a decade” in a five-star review.