Shoegaze band, Fragile Animals, release exciting new single

Music Review | 28th May, 2025 Fragile Animals

Having already released two Eps and the highly successful album, Slow Motion Burial, Fragile Animals have been busy carving their name into the very bones of the shoegaze scene.

With a thumping kick drum and machine gun snare rolls, the latest single, Worldview, is laced with shimmering guitar with chorus effects and a punchy and clear production throughout. The track has a post-punk tones reminiscent of Manchester musical pioneers, Joy Division.

Lyrically, Worldview, addresses the delicate duality of being aware and informed about what's happening in the world and not letting the harshness of that reality completely ruin being alive. Seeing the beauty amongst the darkest of times.

We need the awful truth so that we can keep trying to steer the ship away from the rocks, but it's the beautiful stuff that gives us a reason to want to live. This song is me crying out for a dose of something good. - Fragile Animals

The gestation period for the band began back when Victoria Jenkins (Vocals/Bass) and Daniel Parkinson (Guitars) met back in school. A few years later the pair found themselves working on debut single 'Signals'. Over the course of the next few years, they were joined by Dylan Stewart(Drums) and Melinda Huurdeman (Guitars). Drawn to all things melancholy they pull on influences that range from Phoebe Bridgers, Wolf Alice, MBV and Alvvays to heavy gazers Loathe and the genre defying Fontaines DC and Radiohead.

This was written in a very selfish way. I felt really disengaged from the world. Trying to live up to other people's idea of you, put me under pressure to suppress and filter myself in a way that left me feeling detached from who I actually am. In an attempt to make things better, I went away for ten days to Queenstown in New Zealand. I was just desperate to feel something and remember how to live in my own skin. As cliched as it sounds, I found myself again, and along the way became fiercely protective of that new found inspiration and sense of self. - Victoria Jenkins (Vocals/Bass)

Fragile Animals - Worldview

The single, Worldview, is available through all streaming platforms.

Photo: Old Crows Promotions