KULA SHAKER RETURN WITH SURREALIST FIREPOWER: NEW ALBUM ‘WORMSLAYER’, UK TOUR, AND AI-GENERATED VIDEO UNLEASHED

Kula Shaker, the band that once turned Britpop’s laddish swagger into a mystic fever dream, have announced their eighth studio album, Wormslayer, due for release on January 30th, 2026. Alongside the album comes a new single, a surrealist satire titled “Good Money,” and a UK headline tour that promises to be as spiritually unhinged as it is sonically transcendent.

Earlier this year, I caught and interviewed Kula Shaker supporting Ocean Colour Scene at Sheffield’s City Hall venue, and it was nothing short of electrifying. What struck me most was their uncanny ability to resurrect the sonic palette of the ’90s the swirling psychedelia, the spiritual swagger while injecting it with a freshness that defies nostalgia. It’s the same unmistakable Kula Shaker sound, but refracted through a new lens, sharper, stranger, and somehow more vital. They’re not just revisiting their past they’re reanimating it, and the result is brilliant. In person, Kula Shaker were exactly as they’ve always been magnetic, mystifying, and slightly inter-dimensional. There’s a peculiar consistency to their presence, part cosmic sermon, part rock spectacle, and wholly captivating. Read it here.

“Good Money”: A Faustian Funk Odyssey

The video for “Good Money” goes live at 10am today. You are treated to a kaleidoscopic descent into capitalist absurdity, featuring advanced primates, muppet moguls, a devilish ringmaster, and Lucifer himself.

According to frontman Crispian Mills, the entire video was AI-generated “by two monkeys,” he jokes flipping the script on their last production, which was so tactile and cinematic that audiences assumed it was artificial.

The track itself is a whirlpool of ‘60s psychedelia, soul, and freak-funk, with lyrics that trace a Faustian pact and a boy who grows wings in a small town. “Some think he’s a freak, some think he’s a cherub, others cynically see him as an opportunity to make money,” Mills explains. “Is it a metaphor for the music business? I’d say it’s a metaphor for life.”

‘Wormslayer’: A Psychedelic Opera with Teeth

The album builds on recent singles “Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Broke as Folk,” but Wormslayer is no mere retread. It’s a genre-hopping psychedelic opera that veers from Yeatsian folk (“Dust”) to gothic crooning (“Little Darling”) to mantra-metal on the cinematic title track. Mills promises “twists and turns” and a journey in the tradition of the great psychedelic records “great songs, great production, great storytelling.”

The original lineup Mills, Alonza Bevan, Paul Winterhart, and Jay Darlington remain intact, and their chemistry is palpable. For the first time, the band claims to have captured their “reckless live energy” on record, setting the stage for a UK tour that will feature immersive light displays and a full-throttle return to their otherworldly stagecraft.

Tour Dates – February 2026

7th – Brighton, Concorde 2
8th – Cambridge, Junction
9th – Holmfirth, Picturedrome
11th – Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket
12th – Manchester, O2 Ritz
13th – London, Islington Assembly Hall

Fans who pre-order Wormslayer will gain early access to tour tickets starting Thursday, September 18th at 9:30am. The album will be available in digital, CD, and vinyl formats, including exclusive signed editions and coloured gatefolds via indie stores and the band’s official shop.

Kula Shaker are currently mid-flight on a North American tour, which will segue into a run of shows supporting The Dandy Warhols. It’s a fitting reunion for a band that’s always danced on the edge of the mainstream, too mystical for Britpop, too satirical for psychedelia, and too alive to be anything but essential.