HOON Announce New Album 'Speed And Fatigue', Release Lead Single ‘Simon Says’

Dharawal/Wollongong garage-punk band HOON have just announced a forthcoming album titled Speed And Fatigue ready for release on Friday May 30th. The album is a follow up to their raucous 2023 project Australian Dream, which features fan-favourites Acab and Fried. European fans will be the first to hear Speed And Fatigue in a live setting, as the band have also announced their extensive European tour just in time for a sweaty, boisterous Euro Summer. Until then, the first hints of what to expect from the project comes in the form of their fierce new single Simon Says.

Produced by Jeremy Player and The Shed Sound Laboratory (Pist Idiots, The Pinheads, Chimers), Simon Says introduces itself with a gunfire of barbed riffs before leading into frontman Daniel Breda’s urgent, punchy vocals. As the track story builds through rising tension and explosions of unadulterated aggression, Breda marches along with chant-like hooks and brisk verses that leave you breathless by the end of the track. Simon Says is the ultimate punk song singalong, made for wall-to-wall filled basement gigs and maniacal mosh pits.

HOON have never shied away from making personal and impactful commentary within their music, and continue to do so on Simon Says with the utmost ferocity. 

"Lyrically, Simon Says delves into the impacts of divorce on youth development, exploring confusion and identity through confrontational wordplay. The song's unrelenting energy mirrors this turbulence,” they said.

“We recorded this song with Jeremy at the same place where we recorded our first ever tracks 10+ years ago – back then, we used a budget SM58 dangling from a ceiling fan and a JVC tape deck. A lot's changed since, and it felt like a full-circle moment."

With the release of Simon Says comes a gritty DIY music video which was filmed by Breda in his lounge room. The video shows a bright red light covering a masked family at dinner; their functionality as a unit slowly declining due to addiction. 

"It conveys the chronology of a relationship breakdown due to alcohol and gambling abuse in a tongue-in-cheek way by placing the characters as a family of dice. It's a funny visual portrayal of the emotional unraveling described in the song."

The band will tour the new single and album in an extensive run of European shows, with over 30 dates slated for the Netherlands, Prague, Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland this June and July. The band will make a stop in Stuttgart, Germany to open for US punk band Slaughterhouse in between shows. Australian tour dates are still yet to be announced.

Keep up to date on everything HOON here and check out the music video for their new single Simon Says below.