After a break from touring and performing Alpha Male Tea Party are finally back with a brand new single and a change of direction with “Battle Crab” which is out today via Big Scary Monsters Records. The band have taken their five year absence to explore new territory and for the first time vocals and lyrics feature more heavily.

Driven by their signature mix of heavy riffs and polyrhythmic grooves, the surprise new track dissects male performative aggression, viscerally telling the tale of a night out that took a turn for the worst, lapsed into unwarranted violence, when all you had planned was a quiet pint while grooving to 10CC.

“Battle Crab is the anxious person’s view of nightlife violence and trying not to surround yourselves with friends who only want validation through starting fights,” says bassist Ben Griffiths. “It’s about saying ‘Leave me alone, I just want to see if the jukebox has any Steely Dan.”