The hooks keep coming with PLANET.

If you haven’t caught a live show from Sydney indie-rockers PLANET yet you’re seriously missing out. Their fans around the country (and the world) seem to know their songs note for note, joining in for mass sing-alongs and exaggerated air-guitar solos – the kind of scene normally reserved for the world’s most iconic artists in stadium shows, not sweaty inner-city pubs and clubs. It’s a testament to the group’s knack for writing addictively catchy, heartstrung tunes, and with today’s release ‘Never New’ they have another banger to add to their ever-swelling jukebox of sonic delight.

Hitting us with some spacey guitar lines before Matty Took’s unmistakable vocals take the reigns, you may notice you’ve already started bopping your head a few seconds into the tune. An anthemic call and response chorus follows with the group’s Britpop influences shining throughout.

“I recorded the instrumental basis for that song like four or five years ago,” guitarist Tom Peppitt says. “Matt went away to New Zealand and I was just doing a couple of studio sessions myself, and I just pumped that out. It didn’t have any vocals on it for a very long time and just stayed instrumental. This song wasn’t even a front runner for the EP at all. It kind of just came together.”

“We had this old chorus lying around for ages and just decided to swap it in,” Matty adds. “Then we were like, ‘Now it’s a single.’”

The appetite for PLANET in the UK is growing by the day, and the four-piece are heading back there this month for the third time in a little over a year (dates below + info here). Let’s just be sure to show them the love in Australia before they permanently relocate and we end up having to ration seeing them every couple of years!