Opus Kink – Come Over, Do Me Wrong
Ten years after forming, Brighton six-piece Opus Kink have a debut album on the way. The Sweet Goodbye arrives July 31 on SO Recordings — long anticipated after the EPs ‘Til The Stream Runs Dry (2022) and My Eyes, Brother! (2023) — and lead single “Come Over, Do Me Wrong”, premiered by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music today, is the first proper look at what to expect.
The lineup is Angus Rogers (lead vocals, guitars), Sam Abbo (bass, backing vocals), Fin Abbo (drums, percussion), Jazz Pope (keys, synth, backing vocals), Jack Banjo Courtney (trumpet) and Jed Morgans (saxophone). That brass-and-keys configuration is central to how “Come Over, Do Me Wrong” works: tight, compressed drum pattern underneath, guitars building intensity at an angle, and the trumpet and sax arriving to complicate rather than resolve. It could easily tip into noise, but the band hold the tension carefully — until they don’t, and the seams burst exactly when least expected.
Frontman Rogers describes the song as being about “the hallucinogenic qualities of a doomed love affair and its toxic allure, the mad philosophical leap of ‘I don’t care what you do as long as you do it to me'”. That framing suits the music — there’s something compulsive and slightly unhinged about how the track keeps circling back rather than building toward release. What I find most effective is how committed the whole band sounds; six people all leaning into the same controlled chaos at once.
The Sweet Goodbye tracklist runs ten songs, including a collaboration with The New Eves on “The Head Tree”. Opus Kink tour the UK and Europe extensively from November into December.
Tracklist:
- Come Over, Do Me Wrong
- Will It Come For You?
- I’m A Pretty Showboy
- The Sweet Goodbye
- Peckham Nocturne
- I Have To Shine My Sunday Shoes
- The Head Tree (feat. The New Eves)
- 448C (The Color of Love)
- Crucify!
- Oh, Irony
Tour Dates Europe:
- May 22 — Le Havre, France — Foul Weather Festival
- May 23 — Derbyshire, UK — Bearded Theory
- June 21 — Huntingdon, UK — Where It All Began Festival
- July 4 — Rochester Castle, UK (w/ The Libertines)
- August 14 — France — Les Perséides Festival
- September 26 — Sheffield, UK — Float Along Festival
- November 17 — Blackpool, UK — Bootleg Social
- November 19 — Glasgow, UK — King Tuts
- November 20 — Leeds, UK — Wardrobe
- November 21 — Manchester, UK — Band On The Wall
- November 22 — Newcastle, UK — Cobalt Studios
- November 25 — Bristol, UK — Thekla
- November 26 — London, UK — O2 Forum Kentish Town
- November 28 — Nottingham, UK — Rescue Rooms
- December 5 — Paris, France — Point FMR
- December 6 — Lille, France — Le Grand Mix
- December 8 — Rotterdam, Netherlands — Rotown
- December 9 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Paradiso
- December 10 — Sittard, Netherlands — VOLT
- December 11 — Cologne, Germany — Helios 37
- December 13 — Berlin, Germany — Badehaus
- December 14 — Hamburg, Germany — Bahnhof Pauli
- December 16 — Brussels, Belgium — Botanique
