London’s SickRichard aren’t messing around with their sixth single. Eyes doesn’t creep in quietly — it smacks you in the face from the first bar, a storm front of urgency and atmosphere that feels like being pulled into a black hole of alt-rock intensity. It’s heavy, it’s haunted, but at its core, it’s also deeply human — a song about fear, rejection, vulnerability, and the bruised process of learning to trust yourself again.

The track unfolds like a journey through inner space — a confrontation with demons that feel as interstellar as they do personal. You hear the weight of struggle in every verse, but you also hear the release: the catharsis of turning pain into fire, trauma into something that can lift you up instead of holding you down.

Musically, SickRichard are flexing harder than ever. Their trademark quiet–loud dynamics are still the backbone, nodding to grunge titans of the ’90s, but this time they go darker, moodier — somewhere between Deftones’ dreamlike heaviness and A Perfect Circle’s brooding precision. The mid-section is where the band really show how far they’ve come: a sustained, almost prog-like detour filled with neo-classical arpeggios, stacked vocal harmonies, and synth textures that echo Radiohead or Muse at their most left-field. Then, just when you think you’ve drifted too far into orbit, a jagged guitar line rips through the atmosphere with the swagger of Dave Navarro in his Jane’s Addiction prime, yanking you back into the gravity of a final chorus that feels both grounded and triumphant.

The genius of Eyes lies in its duality. It’s equally suited for an immersive headphone trip as it is for a sweaty, teeth-gritted gym session or a slow, heavy headbang. There’s space in the verses — vast, echoing, almost eerie — but there’s also chaos waiting in the wings, ready to spiral out. The band ride that tension perfectly, always threatening to lose control but never quite letting it slip. It’s restraint and abandon, balanced on a razor’s edge.

Lyrically and sonically, this feels like SickRichard’s watershed moment. It’s the sound of a band no longer searching for their voice, but roaring with it — unafraid of scale, unafraid of honesty, and ready to step into much bigger rooms than the London clubs where they cut their teeth.

With Eyes, SickRichard prove they’re not just another alt-rock act with loud guitars. They’re storytellers of the fractured psyche, translators of inner chaos, and sonic architects who know exactly how to build tension until it detonates. If this is just the prelude to their LP in November, then buckle up — the ride is only going to get wilder.

For now, the darkness is tamed. But not for long.

“Eyes” is available now on all major streaming platforms

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