This Feeling (Canvas Music) (label)
05 November 2025 (released)
08 November 2025
The Slates have now shared their lively new single 'Understand The Groove'.
The Slates spent the summer winning new admirers at festivals across the land, playing to huge crowds at The Isle of Wight, Truck, The Gathering Sounds and especially Y NOT? where so many fans were spilling out of the tent that extra security had to be called to maintain order. In 2026, therefore, they’re gonna need a bigger festival stage.
But right now the Yorkshire trio’s focus falls on their new single ‘Understand The Groove’, swiftly followed by their biggest headline show so far at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds this Saturday - a gig which sold-out weeks ago.
If you’re going to give a track that title you have to deliver, and The Slates rapidly prove that they have everything it takes to get one nation under a groove with this Stone Roses-inspired banger.
Their modernist psychedelia is a whirlpool of wah-wah guitar and sparkling psychedelia, the beats as irresistibly funk-flavoured as the indie-rock scene gets, while Louis Barnes caps that dancefloor-igniting sound with his seemingly effortlessly cool vocal delivery.
‘Understand The Groove’ was written by the band, produced by Peter Redshaw, and mixed and mastered by James Kenosha.
Later this month The Slates will head to Sweden to play their first European gigs at Viva Sounds before ending 2025 by supporting The Clause in Manchester. Already confirmed to hit Sheffield’s Foundry in February with The Lilacs, today also sees The Slates announce details of their biggest headline tour to date. Manchester tickets are available now, all other dates go on sale on Friday, November 7th.
They have also just been confirmed in the first wave of artists to play New York’s international breaking band showcase The New Colossus, which runs at various venues from March 3rd-8th.
The Slates are also set for their own headline tour in April 2026.
APRIL 2026 - HEADLINE TOUR
8th - Birmingham, Dead Wax
9th - London, The Social
10th - Sheffield, Sidney & Matilda
11th - Manchester, Gorilla
