RINGARDS – The Spit
East London trio RINGARDS are back with “The Spit”, out on Panache Records. Enzo Salinie (vocals/guitar), Gary Cartmill (bass), and Joe Hornby Patterson (drums) have been building a consistent run of singles — We covered “Stubborn Stain” in June 2025, “In The Corner” in October 2025, and “Flaccid Venus” in January 2026 — and this one keeps that momentum going.
Where “Flaccid Venus” leaned into workplace alienation and surreal self-deprecation, “The Spit” goes somewhere more direct. Salinie describes it as “another brief and toxic relationship where I desperately assumed the role of saviour to someone I thought would elevate me but was just bringing me down”. It’s a theme the band knows well — “Stubborn Stain” mined similar territory — but the framing here feels sharper, more resigned. There’s no optimism left to manage.
The lyric is built around specificity. A high street in the rain comes back four times in the chorus, not as a device but as the kind of memory that replays whether you want it to or not. The verses move through a loose cast of characters — Lucia the maid, people waiting for someone to return — before collapsing back into that repeated scene. RINGARDS don’t explain the emotion. They just put you back on that street.
