Haggard Cat have unveiled another single from their forthcoming album, and it’s a full-throttle mix of hard rock muscle, arena-sized vocals and proggy keys. ‘Halcyon’ carries the familiar signatures of a Haggard Cat track while showing the band stretching into new territory. The song moves with a loose-limbed swagger, laying the groundwork for frontman Matt Reynolds’ inward-looking lyric.

“Halcyon combines layered vocal harmonies, an unshakeable groove and massive guitar riffs that simulate the feeling of better days, juxtaposed with bittersweet lyrics that conjure the unmistakable feeling of regret and anxiety after a big night out. It’s a song about masking your own feelings and over-compensating by acting like you’re the best you ever have been, and the realisation that the bravado will ultimately fade and you’ll eventually have to confront your demons.” — Matt Reynolds

For their highly anticipated third full-length album, ‘The Pain That Orbits Life’ , Haggard Cat have teamed up with double Grammy award-winning producer Adrian Bushby to create their most accomplished body of work to date. The album sees the band draw on more progressive influences, featuring sprawling epics and industrial synths along with huge choruses and the more adrenaline-charged moments that they have become well known for.

“We worked on this album for a very long time. It’s rare that at this stage in your career you get to spend the longest you ever have on a body of work, but this time, not in any small way due to the circumstances surrounding us both in the world and in our own lives, that’s where we found ourselves. We definietly didn’t feel it at the time, but now we’re super thankful for the time that fate gave us to create this record. It was a journey of self reflection and personal growth and what we have arrived at is an album that’s more evolved, more deeply personal and most of all more definitively Haggard Cat than anything that’s come from us before it. We’re incredibly proud of this record and we absolutely can’t wait for you to hear it” – Haggard Cat

‘The Pain That Orbits Life’ is set for release on May 8th via their new label home Church Road Records.