Cable Boy Step Into the Storm With Hypnotic New Single “Something In My Head”
- Sarah Williams
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
Photo Credit: @daisychain
Dublin five-piece Cable Boy aren’t easing into 2026, they’re walking straight into the noise. With the release of “Something In My Head” on January 16th, the band fire the opening flare for their long-awaited debut album Forever (out April 17th), and it’s a bold, restless introduction to the most focused and ferocious version of themselves yet.
There’s something instantly gripping about this track. It hums with tension from the first few seconds, built on propulsive guitars, hypnotic rhythms, and a cool, detached vocal delivery that feels like it’s holding back a scream. It’s shoegaze through a modern, urban lens, fuzzy and dreamy, but wired with nervous energy. Think DIIV or bdrmm dragged onto a late-night dancefloor, lights strobing, pulse racing.
Lyrically, “Something In My Head” taps straight into the strange emotional paralysis of modern life. It captures the feeling of scrolling through endless bad news, absorbing global horror in real time, and still having to get up, go to work, and pretend everything’s fine. There’s a quiet despair to it, but also a strange, almost numb composure, a tension between caring deeply and feeling utterly powerless. When Semilore Olusa delivers the chorus — “I can be cool just where I am, weather is cooler where I stand” — it lands like a shrug and a scream at the same time.
Musically, the track marks a shift. Produced by Adam Shanahan, David Tapley, and the band themselves, it introduces Cable Boy at their most direct and assured. It’s heavier, fuzzier, and more volatile than their earlier dream-pop leanings, yet still melodic and beautifully restrained. This is the band’s self-described “goth disco” sound in full motion: dark, danceable, and emotionally loaded.
Cable Boy’s journey to this moment has been slow-burn and deliberate. Formed by school friends Semilore Olusa and Liam Murray, the band first surfaced with their 2019 EP WHOLE, wrapped in dreamy textures and soft glow atmospheres. After 2020, everything changed. The arrival of Corneille Tshibasu, Jason Aikhionbare, and Fionn McLoughlin pushed the group toward a heavier, more physical sound that still floats, but now also punches.
That evolution is all over “Something In My Head”. It feels like a band processing the last few years of chaos and compression — politically, socially, emotionally — and distilling it into three minutes of controlled unrest.
Cable Boy aren’t chasing trends. They’re building a world. And with this single, they’ve opened the door just wide enough to pull you in.
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