Ain't - Pirouette / Jude (7")

South London outfit Ain’t return with their potent new single ‘Pirouette’. The single comes as the band continue their packed-out UK tour with THUS LOVE and is announced alongside the news of their debut headline show in London this Summer.

Available to independent retailers on 7” single, ‘Pirouette’ lands on the back of an incendiary year for the band. Having already played showcases for the likes of So Young, The Alt Escape and The Windmill, their first two singles, ‘Oar’ and ‘Teething’, arrived last Summer and marked out the quintet as that rarest of things - a band with a feverish word-of-mouth reputation, despite having not released a single official track, delivering on all the promise that they had built up. The tracks saw widespread support with the band landing digital cover with Dork and props from the likes of Stereogum, NME, CLASH, DIY, The Line Of Best Fit and So Young, as well as radio play from BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio X, Apple Music 1 and more.

Bringing together the stranger side of 1990s guitar music, post-punk and shoegaze from both sides of the Atlantic, Ain’t expertly toe the line between nostalgia and ingenuity. ‘Pirouette’ marks out the band’s opening salvo for 2025, setting the tone for what is shaping up to be another meteoric year.

Recorded with Theo Verney (English Teacher, Lime Garden, Egyptian Blue), this single sees Ain’t flexing their knack for complex dynamics with heavily textured, hook-led instrumentation, subtle vocal harmonies and a combustible rhythm section.