Leeds-based brass-infused noisy art punks Volk Soup are thrilled to announce their debut LP 10p Jazz (Dipterid Records), out Friday, October 3, 2025. The band has shared its new single “Friends” this week along with a frenzied live session recorded at Cafe Etch in Middlesbrough.

Vocalist/guitarist Harry Jones says of “Friends”

“A song written in a time between friendship. A time when I had drifted from the friends of my youth and had yet to meet the people I call my friends today. It was a bitter and resentful time. A time when a kindred spirit was hitherto unseen. These were the lonely years when I had few to share ideas with. Now I have too many and the song rings slightly false. 

The opening verse possesses some paraphrasing from a quote in Jacques Tourneur 1946 film Canyon Passage. The misanthropy and pessimism with which the quote is laced really chimed with me at the time. I think I’m a little less doom-laden now than I was then. That said, I do still feel that it is of some importance to surround yourself with people whose faces you’d like to see when the ship goes down. Perhaps the sexiest song on the record?”

Catch Volk Soup live:
October 3 – Chemic Tavern, Leeds
October 28 – Le Cessonnais, Saint Brieuc, FR 
October 29 – Penny Lane, Rennes, FR*
October 30 – L’Avant Scène Bar, Bordeaux, FR
October 31 – Water Moulin, Tournai, BE
December 4 – Soup, Manchester^
December 5 – Kazimier Gardens, Liverpool^
December 6 – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds^

^with Gaol Bird
*supporting KEG