Martha Share New Single “Hope Gets Harder” From Upcoming “Please Don’t Take Me Back” Album

Durham indiepop punks Martha have shared their furious new single, Hope Gets Harder, that is about their home country. The track is the third track to be taken from the band’s forthcoming album, Please Don’t Take Me Back, that is due out on October 28th via Dirtnap Records in North America and Specialist Subject Records in Europe. While their previous album, 2019’s Love Keeps Kicking, saw them remaining defiant in a world that seemed to be breaking apart, their new album explores the scattered fragments of what followed and tries to make sense of how we navigate the smoking remains. Please Don’t Take Me Back is Martha’s most life-affirming yet and a welcome ripple of light at a time when it’s often difficult to see past the darkness.

“‘Hope Gets Harder’ is a song about England: a uniquely fucking terrible idea. A place governed by the most absurdly mediocre people in history. Selfish, rich, thick, malevolent ghouls propped up by a bootlicking, self-congratulating, stenographic, client-journalist news media that puts North Korea to shame. England is a grey, damp artifice, vibrating to a quasi-fascist background hum, where the majority live miserable hopeless lives, so that a tiny minority can live in extravagant luxury. As we lurch violently from one crisis to the next, it feels like the light of any hope for the future is slowly dying. But we have to try and find hope in one another, and together we have to fight like hell for a more socially and ecologically just world. No fate but what we make for ourselves. Abolish england. Fuck the king.”