Ain’t
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Ain’t share new single “Grazer” & announce "How They Faked The Moon Landing" EP via Fear Of Missing Out Records.
Today, South London outfit Ain’t return with their first new music of 2026. The propulsive new track “Grazer” comes on the heels of an enviable last year for the five-piece, with highlights that include a spot in the latest NME 100 list, showcase performances at The Great Escape’s First Fifty for NOTION, Dork 100 (alongside Lime Garden), and The Line Of Best Fit’s Five Day Forecast. All of this is on top of a packed-out UK tour with THUS LOVE and shows with the likes of The Belair Lip Bombs, The Hold Steady, Thistle, Sunflower Bean, and a sold-out debut headline London date.
“Grazer” also follows an immaculate run of five singles which have seen the band deliver on all the promise of their early word-of-mouth live reputation, earning widespread support from the likes of international media outlets, as well as radio play from BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio X, Apple Music 1 and more.
These singles, alongside “Grazer”, will now form a six track EP titled How They Faked The Moon Landing.
The one-stop introductory release will be landing on 12” vinyl on 22nd May via Fear Of Missing Out Records, as one of Dinked's Early Doors First Editions.
Recorded with Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Yard Act, Sorry), the sub-3-minute new single epitomises everything that has brought Ain’t to this point. It’s full of warm, slurring guitar lines, hooky vocal harmonies, subtly intricate drumming, fluid bass, and contemplative lyrics. In keeping with their earlier material there are knowing nods to idiosyncratic guitar music and 90s slacker indie with hints of shoegaze, Midwest rock, and lo-fi, atmospheric dream pop.
Speaking on the single, Hanna Baker Darch (vocals) says
"I've always thought it cowardly when people assume popular culture is unprofound; the mere fact we are animals making art is inherently mystical. Grazer kind of vents this opinion, using hellraiser as an example.
It's been downplayed as another pulpy, ridiculous slasher franchise - and it is, but it's also got these insane parallels to concepts in Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy: frank cotton is literally a body without organs, and he is also a desiring machine.
It feels increasingly necessary to stress the importance of creativity - not just high-brow works - when artistic expression is increasingly under threat from AI."
How They Faked The Moon Landing rounds off an incendiary start for Ain’t, start being the operative word. With more music planned for 2026 and a slew of headline dates and festival appearances at 2000trees, The Great Escape, Ritual Union, and more, the new single and EP act less as a rounding off and more as a primer for what’s yet to come.
Photo by Marieke Macklon
Live dates
28 Mar - Bristol, Ritual Union
14 May - Brighton, The Great Escape
26 May - Manchester, Yes Basement*
27 May - London, The Social*
29 May - Bristol, The Louisiana*
11 July - Cheltenham, 2000trees
03 Oct - Portsmouth, Night Currents
* - headline performance
How They Faked The Moon Landing EP
Dinked Early Doors Edition is out 22nd May
Order here
