With their momentum still building, Cork’s The Love Buzz return with ‘Freeloaded (Cool Kitten)’, a wiry, off-kilter cut that sets the tone for their forthcoming album 'Earworms', due this Autumn. Rather than shifting direction, it sharpens what they already do best—hooky, chaotic, and just the right side of unhinged.
Put together in a burst of spontaneity, the track leans into instinct over precision. A stray riff quickly snowballed into something fully formed, with the band keeping its earliest takes intact—first lyrics, low-slung vocals, and all the rough edges left deliberately exposed. That looseness carries through the track, giving it a restless, lived-in feel, somewhere in the lineage of Weezer and Supergrass, but filtered through a more scrappy, DIY lens.
There’s a push and pull at its core. Verses drift along on a lulling groove before collapsing into dense bursts of fuzz and off-centre textures, with a bright, almost anthemic chorus cutting through the noise. Produced alongside Chris Somers and Tom Rees (Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard), it embraces contradiction—tight melodies wrapped in something deliberately frayed.
The lyrics tap into a kind of suspended state—days stretching, weekends bleeding into one another—capturing a low-level disconnection without ever losing its sense of humour.
The video follows suit, leaning into a slightly surreal, homespun aesthetic that mirrors the track’s loose energy. It doesn’t spell things out, instead letting the same sense of unpredictability and charm play out visually.
Following tours with The Darkness and NewDad, plus appearances at Glastonbury Festival and Electric Picnic, the band’s rise has felt organic but undeniable. ‘Freeloaded (Cool Kitten)’ lands as another step forward—unpolished, immediate, and entirely their own.
Watch the video for ‘Freeloaded (Cool Kitten)’ below.
