Ain’t

Bringing together the stranger side of ’90s guitar music from both sides of the Atlantic, Ain’t expertly toe the line between nostalgia and ingenuity. Comprised of George Ellerby (Guitar/Vox), Ed Randall (Guitar), Hanna Baker Darch (Vox), Joe Lockstone (Drums), and Isaac Griffiths (Bass), Ain’t’s compulsion to create seeps through with urgency and heft.

Having already played showcases for the likes of So Young, Rough Trade, The Alt Escape, and The Windmill, their first two singles, “Oar” and “Teething,” arrived last summer and marked the quintet as that rarest of things—a band with a feverish word-of-mouth reputation even before releasing a single official track. New singles “Pirouette” and “Jude”, recorded with Theo Verney (English Teacher, Lime Garden, Egyptian Blue), mark the band’s opening salvo for 2025, setting the tone for what’s shaping up to be another meteoric year.