Original DIY success story, indie / dance crossover icons andenduring figures across multiple realms of British popular culture, TheFarm return with new music for 2025, heralded by the single ‘MomentIn Time’.
Instantly recognisable by sound for their aspirational, observationaland near-spiritual upbeat and aspirational electro-inspired indie, andby sight for their mod-ish terrace gang wardrobe, the formerly riotous,now reformed 1980s / 1990s Liverpool five-piece return as wised-upstatesmen of pop and present the release of their long-awaited fifthalbum, ‘Let The Music (Take Control)’.
Despite appearing to be forever present as a force in music thanks torepeated cover versions and timely re-issues of their greatest hitsingles, plus decades of well-publicised activism, The Farm’s lastalbum was 1994’s US-only release of ‘Hullabaloo’.
A band whipped up into a frenzy of deserved hype following therelease of their 1991 No.1 debut album, ‘Spartacus’, which broughtera-defining singles ‘All Together Now’ and ‘Groovy Train’ into theworld, they quickly followed up in 1992 with their second album, ‘LoveSee No Colour’.
Constructed by the band’s original ‘heyday’ line-up of Peter Hooton(vocals), Steve Grimes (guitar / keys), Keith Mullin (guitar) CarlHunter (bass) and Roy Boulter (drums), the fruits of The Farm’s newstudio sessions were first tasted with BBC Radio 2-playlisted single,‘Feel The Love’, released in Summer 2023.
Sensing new creativemomentum within themselves and a hunger amongst fans for more ofthe same, The Farm connected with leading indie label Modern Skyand completed a further nine tracks to create ‘Let The Music (TakeControl)’, their first album in over three decades.
