f you’ve been waiting for a new band to come along and completely take over your brain for the rest of 2025, Blush Puppy have just volunteered as tribute. Their brand new single ‘Under The Water’ has arrived via Venn Records, and it’s the kind of track that stays lodged in your head after a single listen — in the best way possible. It’s emo, it’s pop, it’s grunge, it’s alternative, it even brushes metal at the edges, and it all blends into something that feels fresh while still giving you that early 00s singalong nostalgia. Except this time the production is crystal clear thanks to Grammy winner Adrian Bushby. No muddy speakers, just pure emotional impact.
You also get a music video that feels like someone handed Alice in Wonderland the keys to a rock opera. It’s a surreal, colourful, slightly disorienting nod to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, built around the feeling of searching for an escape when your own head gets too loud. The band describe it as a metaphor for all the ways we hide our messiest feelings, and how admitting you’re drowning is usually the first step toward breathing again. It’s big, it’s cinematic, and it absolutely nails the weight of the track.
‘Under The Water’ also happens to be the only song on their debut EP born with the whole band in a room together, which makes sense when you hear it. There’s a real mix of voices and influences happening, and vocalist Ciaran O’Sullivan said the song shows a “submerged, dreamlike space” that feeds directly into the world of the upcoming EP. You can feel that energy instantly — it sounds like four people building something honest together.
Speaking of that EP… say hello to ‘Here You Dream’, arriving 27th March via Venn Records. Every band’s origin story has a detail that sticks, and Blush Puppy’s is that they wrote the whole thing in Harry’s shed. A literal shed. Freezing. A few seats. No cosy studio candles or warm lighting. Just the band, their feelings, and whatever heater probably didn’t work. But that slightly unhinged creative setting paid off — the songs became a shared place to breathe when real life felt heavy.
And that’s the real magic of Blush Puppy. Their music pulls from the world of Bring Me The Horizon, Boston Manor, Turnstile, Deftones and Enter Shikari while still keeping something unmistakably their own. There are big hooks, emotional guts, flashes of metal intensity, and that three-way-harmony thing they do that you just know is going to become their signature. It’s all fuelled by the band trying to turn tough experiences into something that feels like release, not burden.
‘Here You Dream’ is a five track journey through everything they’ve been carrying — fragility, disconnection, and the hope that there’s somewhere softer to land. If ‘Under The Water’ is anything to go by, we’re all going to be spending a lot of time inside this dreamworld when March rolls around.
Until then, get ‘Under The Water’ into your headphones and hit replay. Trust us, once it’s in your head, it does not leave quietly.