newhvn - Skin off the Bone

New Music 2026 Q1 W11

newhvn – Skin off the Bone

Dublin’s newhvn have been building their sound through years of European, UK and Asian touring — sharing stages with Touché Amoré and Trauma Ray along the way — and “Skin off the Bone” is the first single from their debut album Spring Time Blues, due in April on Faction Records. It was recorded with producer Tom Peters (Alpha Male Tea Party) at Black Bay Studios on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a remote enough location that the band themselves noted they “went to the edge of the world” to make it.

The track lands somewhere between post-rock, shoegaze and post-hardcore — wide-open in its dynamics, loud where it needs to be, with the kind of slow-build structure the band traces back to their instrumental roots. Spring Time Blues is a 10-track debut that adds more personal and emotional lyrical weight to that framework, citing Pinegrove and The War on Drugs as reference points for the record’s indie-rock reach. I wasn’t expecting the combination to work quite this well on a debut — there’s a confidence in the arrangement that usually takes longer to arrive. An extensive European headline tour runs from April through June.

Tour Dates Europe:

April 17 – Paris, France – Petit Bain
April 18 – Charleroi, Belgium – Le Vecteur
April 19 – Aachen, Germany – Musikbunker
April 22 – Berlin, Germany – Kantine am Berghain
April 23 – Aalborg, Denmark – 1000fryd
April 25 – Stavanger, Norway – Folken
April 26 – Bergen, Norway – Landmark
April 28 – Norrköping, Sweden – Rumpan Rockbar
April 29 – Johanneshov, Sweden – Hus 7
May 1 – Helsinki, Finland – Bar Loose
May 3 – Oslo, Norway – Revolver
May 6 – Copenhagen, Denmark – A Collossol Weekend
May 7 – Hamburg, Germany – MS Stubnitz (with A Burial at Sea, Blackwater Holylight)
May 8 – Leeuwarden, Netherlands – Neushoorn
May 9 – Groningen, Netherlands – Vera
May 10 – Den Haag, Netherlands – PAARD (with A Burial at Sea)
May 12 – Tilburg, Netherlands – Cultuurfabriek Hall of Fame
May 13 – Terneuzen, Netherlands – De Pit / Podium
May 14 – Luxembourg, Luxembourg – De Gudde Wëllen
May 20 – Castelló de la Plana, Spain – Pub Terra
May 21 – Madrid, Spain – Barracudas Rock Bar
May 22 – Zaragoza, Spain – Sala Creedence
May 27 – San Sebastián, Spain – Dabadaba
May 28 – Montpellier, France – L’Antirouille
May 29 – Turin, Italy – Blah Blah
May 30 – Sezzadio, Italy – Cascina Bellaria
June 4 – Bologna, Italy – Freakout Club
June 9 – Nürnberg, Germany – Soft Spot
June 10 – Budapest, Hungary – A38 Ship
June 11 – Prague, Czechia – fuchs2
June 12 – Vienna, Austria – Arena Wien
June 13 – Munich, Germany – Backstage
June 17 – Dresden, Germany – Ostpol