Listen: Male Bonding - "Falling" [Premiere]

Now we've got the exclusive premiere of their second new track, "Falling".

Fuelled by grubby punk-rock axes and a chugging bassline, the track roars along at blistering speed. They hammer beats in with '80s-roots tenacity, but in the pre-chorus all the aggro seemingly foats away, with shoegaze licks permeating the walls of distortion. It's still heady, still noisy, but instead of pummelling your senses with pure volume or speed, they crank up the wooze to full blast.

Despite all that, there's a noticeably gooey core in the lyrics, anxiously pondering the prospect of romance and rejection: "I can see you looking at me/what if you like what you see/troubled times are clawing at me/nothing hurts ultimately..." A nervous wreck imbued with the prospect of hope, we see Male Bonding weigh up the pros and cons of striking up the courage to talk to a prospective lover. It's antithesis to Pitbull's magnum opus of swaggering bravado.

They've not released a record since 2011's Endless Now, but a new batch of material is expected in 2015 - however, both "Falling" and "A Kick To The Face" will not feature.

Male Bonding will play the Buffalo Bar this Sunday (21 December) with Shopping as part of the venue's farewell celebrations. You can check out more information here.

Listen to "Falling" below.