Panic Shack Return With New Single “Grin & Bear It”

Today, Cardiff quintet Panic Shack return with their first new music since the release of their 2025 self-titled debut album that was released via Brace Yourself Records. The band have now released the fizzy punk barnstormer, Grin & Bear It, that arrives on the eve of the group’s first-ever North American headline tour. Grin & Bear It almost appeared on last year’s self titled full length and finds the band linking up with producer Ross Orton for a maelstrom of blazing, beefy guitars and righteous fury as vocalist Sarah Harvey tears apart the rat race cribbing from lyrics scribbled on a scrap of paper during a long, lonely nightshift in 2023. The track is joined by an accompanying video, shot during Panic Shack’s recent headline German tour, that perfectly captures the chaos and camaraderie the band have wrought in the wake of their debut album, and will continue to bring across the UK, Europe, and North America this summer.

“This song has had many iterations, seen many a practice room and taken many forms. It’s a song that we’ve felt really passionate about getting right, but the music was never fully hitting. We reworked it from the start of the year in any spare time we had around working our jobs and gigging (as we almost always do), which really helped to emphasise the song’s meaning. It almost made it onto our debut album, but it just wasn’t where it needed to be; we felt it didn’t have enough grit, until now. We really clicked with Ross in the studio and are super proud of what the track has become; it sounds massive. We took this to another level when recording the video. Went full method. The whole video is filmed and directed by us while on our recent tour in Germany. We left no graffiti’d wall un-lip synced in front of, no green room relaxed in, every cool monument photo op used as a backdrop, it was work work work, grind grind grind… but of course we had a blast doing it.”