NOVABLOOD’s “I Used To Live In A House” Feels Like a Band Finding Its Voice

NOVABLOOD hail from Carlisle in the north of England. They’ve released music before. This is the first track that made us lean in.

“I Used To Live In A House” sits in a space that feels classic without sounding borrowed. There’s a clear new-wave pulse to it, the kind you’d link to bands like Talking Heads, but it doesn’t feel retro. It feels current.

The bass loops and keeps the track moving. The drums stay locked in. The guitars cut across the rhythm instead of smoothing it out. Nothing here is trying to be pretty. It’s about momentum.

That sense of rhythm isn’t an accident. Mark Zowie, the band’s singer and producer, comes out of club culture, with years spent making and playing electronic and house music before turning his focus to NOVABLOOD. You can hear that DJ brain in how the song locks into a groove and refuses to let go. His vocal pushes against the beat, half spoken, half driven, giving the track real frontman energy.

The song feels natural. Not stacked. Not overworked. It sounds like a band in a room locking into something and letting it run. You can hear the air around the instruments.

Lyrically, it lives between memory and unease. It looks back at a life that once felt solid and finds the cracks in it. When he sings about having “a roof over my head,” it doesn’t sound safe. It sounds thin.

Their new album, You’re New To This Aren’t You?, is out in March via Mint 400 Records. After 2024’s Destroy The Magic and a heavy run of touring and club shows across the UK and Europe, this feels like a band tightening its focus.

A lot of new music comes and goes. This doesn’t. NOVABLOOD feel like they’re stepping into something sharper, and this track is a great example.

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