PREMIERE: Pretty City Unveil Their Shoegazy, Anthemic New Single 'Nothing Happens For Free'

Melburnian psych-rock foursome Pretty City are ramping up for the release of their second studio full-length, Cancel The Future, revealing the first single from the upcoming album, Nothing Happens For Free, today.

Landing just ahead of the band's first-ever European tour — and, at 23 shows across the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Denmark, they're not half-arsing it — the song is a shoegazey, anthemic headbanger that fuses a breadth of musical influences into their genre-transcending sound, a unification of varied flavours not lost on the members themselves.

"It's hard to pinpoint where we all meet musically, as there's a lot of diverse musical tastes and training, yet we have been able to focus all of that into one sound that is unmistakably us," the band's Johnny Rock said in a statement.

It's been a successful year for Pretty City as it is, with the group having graced the stage at Canadian Music Week around recording sessions for their second album. Following on from their lauded debut album Colorize, Cancel The Future is set to further solidify the band's status as must-see musos in the flesh, and Nothing Happens For Free is the perfect jumping-on point for fans old and new.

"I wrote Nothing Happens For Free feeling stretched between slamming out new music and staying true to myself," vocalist/guitarist Hugh Matthews said. "We were overflowing with creative ideas and new sounds, and interpreting our personal chaos into a heavy and intense musical backdrop."

When they return from Europe, the band are set to keep the activity levels high into 2018 as they prep for album #2, with shows in the US and festival appearances on the cards. To make sure you don't miss out on the fun when they're back in our neck of the woods, connect with Pretty City on Facebook.