All The Young have always occupied that sweet spot where earnest ambition meets widescreen indie grit, and on Something More the Stoke-on-Trent outfit sound like a band refusing to settle for the middle lane. This is a return not marked by nostalgia, but by purpose — a band that’s lived the highs, survived the lows, and stepped back into the fray with clarity in their stride.
Produced by Gareth Nuttall (The K’s, Frank Turner, The Lottery Winners), the track wastes no time setting its agenda. Chiming guitars cut through the haze, the rhythm section thunders forward with the urgency of a midnight escape, and frontman Ryan Dooley delivers a vocal performance that strikes a balance between grit, defiance, and an unshakeable belief that better days can still be claimed. It’s a sound built on rallying-cry ambition — not polished optimism, but something rawer and more necessary.
Lyrically, “Something More” feels like a pep talk for the disillusioned. Dooley leans into the idea that hope isn’t naïve, it’s a weapon. “We are something more than that,” he insists — a line that lands like a shoulder-shake to anyone drowning under the weight of bad news cycles and cultural burnout. It’s not a song pretending the darkness isn’t there; it’s one that reaches through it.
For a band with history — from early Warner Bros. hype, to touring with Morrissey, Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, The Pigeon Detectives, even taking The 1975 out as support — this single feels like a recalibration rather than reinvention. The lineup may have evolved, the landscape may have shifted, but the essence remains intact: anthemic indie rock with emotional honesty stitched into its seams.
There’s a widescreen quality to the chorus, almost spiritual in its lift, echoing the ambition that fuelled their debut Welcome Home and the sharpened conviction of 2022’s Tales of Grandeur. Here, though, there’s a fire that comes only from lived experience — a band who’ve seen the machinery behind the curtain and chosen to step back onto the stage anyway.
“Something More” is a statement.
A refusal to dim.
A reminder that some bands don’t just age — they deepen.
With this release, All The Young aren’t chasing the past.
They’re aiming at something bigger, brighter, and defiantly hopeful.
And honestly?
It suits them.
Something More is released on Friday 28th November.
Listen to the song again on the Rise Of The Indie Artists show here.
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