Riley! have unveiled the first taste of their latest EP, and it’s a rip-roaringly catchy pop-rock track that features a very special guest.
The Texan trio’s latest EP is titled ‘To Live And Die In The American South’, and it’ll arrive on July 17 via Pure Noise Records.
It’s set to feature freshly dropped single ‘Another Round of Radical ‘Ritas, Please’, which serves as a triumphant introduction to the band’s new era. With a chorus that’ll be lodged in your brain from the first time you hear it, lyrics you’d have wanted to scribble all over your high school journal, AND a guest appearance from Hot Mulligan's Tades Sanville – it’s something very, very special.
On the track, the band have shared:
“This is the first song we wrote with the intention of it being a part of this record. We all wanted to try writing a more upbeat, poppy track. I took a lot of inspiration from modern pop songs that I like and came up with the idea for the verses. We played around with 4 or 5 different ideas or choruses, but ultimately decided the heaviest version just felt right and ended up with what you hear now. I think this is when we decided to start asking our friends to do features all over this EP and felt like Tades would kill it on this track. He initially was supposed to only do one part but through some miscommunication, he ended up recording vocals over what was supposed to be an instrumental break. Sounds badass so we kept it and he still recorded the part we initially intended for him to do. hooray double feature.”
Speaking on their approach towards this latest EP, the band’s Ryan Bluhm has said:
“We were going for something a little bit more polished… Not everyone is necessarily into screaming emo music, so we wanted to make things a bit more digestible.”
Tades isn’t the only familiar voice you’ll hear when it drops either, with Eric Egan of Heart Attack Man and Gabe Wood of Saturdays At Your Place also making appearances on these new tracks.
Check out the artwork and tracklisting for ‘To Live And Die In The American South’ below.
Roll For Initiative
Another Round Of Radical ‘Ritas, Please (Ft Tades Sanville)
Two Bucks (Ft Eric Egan)
Backseat Bartender (Ft Gabe Wood)
73 Summers
Riley! have got a whole load of shows lined up for 2026, including a North American headline tour and a run of UK shows supporting label mates Ben Quad.
Take a look at the full list of dates below.
JULY
11: SAN ANTONIO, TX Vibes Underground
14: DENVER, CO Larimer Lounge
16: CHICAGO, IL Reggies
17: INDIANAPOLIS, IN Turntable
18: DETROIT, MI Pike Room
19: CLEVELAND, OH Mahall’s
20: WASHINGTON, DC Pearl St
22: PHILADELPHIA, PA Nikki Lopez
23: BOSTON, MA Warehouse XI
24: HARTFORD, CT Webster Underground
25: NEW YORK, NY Elsewhere – Zone One
27: CHAPEL HILL, NC Local 506
28: ATLANTA, GA Masquerade (Altar)
29: ORLANDO, FL Will’s Pub
31: DALLAS, TX TX Tea Room
OCTOBER
13: MANCHESTER YES (Pink Room)
14: NEWCASTLE The Cluny
15: GLASGOW Stereo
16: BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute3
17: LEEDS The Key Club
19: KINGSTON The Fighting Cocks
20: BRIGHTON DUST
22: BRISTOL Exchange
23: SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners
24: LONDON Dingwalls
