Brisbane emo rock outfit Bad Neighbour are stepping deeper into their feelings with the announcement of their second album ‘Burns From The X-rays’, due out Friday, June 5th via Ninth Life Records.
Alongside the news, Bad Neighbour have released ‘Rush Apart’, a track that leans hard into the messy, impulsive edges of young love, cut from the same cloth as PUP and Modern Baseball, Bad Neighbour have been quietly building something raw and unpolished in the Brisbane underground.
‘Rush Apart’ feels like another piece of that puzzle, it’s scrappy, emotional, and just self aware enough to sting, check it out below:
Growing pains, bottled and blasted out
Frontman Cooper Riley frames the new record as something bigger than a breakup album or a nostalgia trip (per press release):
“In general, the album is one big love song. The good parts and the awful parts, but mainly it’s about outgrowing a time and a place. I felt very unneasy about my life changing and growing older these past few years, and I wanted this record to be a reflection of that feeling.”
That tension runs straight through ‘Rush Apart’:
“‘Rush Apart’ was one of the first songs we wrote for the record. I had the ‘Rush Apart’ line saved in my lyric folder for so long, and I wanted the general theme of the song to be about young, dumb love – we are often so quick to hurt each other when we have no idea what we’re doing”.
Earlier singles ‘Snarling’ and ‘I Can’t Look For You’ also land on the album, signalling a darker, more textured direction compared to their 2024 debut ‘Millions’.
A band built on the road
Bad Neighbour aren’t just another studio project., they’ve earned their stripes the hard way, grinding through support slots with The Smith Street Band, Motion City Soundtrack, Mom Jeans, Hot Mulligan, and more, while popping up on festival bills like Good Things and New Bloom.
That live reputation is starting to stick, Brisbane crowds already know what’s coming, the rest of the country is catching up.
This weekend, they’ll take that energy to Fuzz Fest in Byron Bay, sharing a stage with Aussie alt-rock staples Faker.
Bad Neighbour ‘Burns From The X-Rays’
Bad Neighbour ‘Burns From The X-Rays’ track list
1. Mean Faces
2. Rush Apart
3. Snarling
4. I Can’t Look For You
5. One Wing
6. Burns From The X-rays
7. In Homes
8. Vince Pope
9. If It Had A Face
10. Smidley
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