CHROMA Channel Grief As They Return With New Single ‘Riverhouse’ Out Now Alcopop! Records
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October 2025 UK Support Dates w/ PINS + BILK
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Welsh Music Prize 2024-Shortlisted Debut Album Ask For Angela Out Now via Alcopop! Records
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Pontypridd, Wales bi-lingual alt-rock trio CHROMA return today with their new single ‘River House’ set for release on 25th September 2025 via Alcopop! Records.
Two years on from the release of their 2024 Welsh Music Prize nominated debut album, Ask For Angela, South Wales’ CHROMA announce their return with brand new music and a fresh take on their fuzzy yet melancholic alternative rock.
“It’s been a whirlwind few years since we released our long awaited debut album and the response was far more than we could have ever imagined!” says drummer Zac Mather. “We’ve been incredibly fortunate to have been able to take those songs to stages all over the world and get the chance to get back into the studio and record what we believe is the best possible follow up.”
Commenting on the new single, vocalist KT Hall says: “It’s been great getting back in the studio again. With the new stuff we’ve really tried to challenge ourselves as songwriters. A lot of the lyrics in the new songs are very personal to myself; exploring grief, heartbreak and navigating the scary world from deindustrialised South Wales.”
“‘Riverhouse’ is a particularly meaningful song for me. It’s about grieving the loss of my close friend Sara. I remember at the time it happened, a friend introduced me to the 5/7 stages of grief (give it a Google, it really helped me when i was struggling). Riverhouse explores the anger stage, the stage accepting the information that your loved one has gone. I was truly raging at the world at the time. The song is also about how much I love my close group of friends. It’s about reaching out for help when you’re struggling with the tough stuff life throws at you. Making these songs has been a wonderful experience and we’re so excited to share them with the world.”
The first new material from an as-yet-unannounced new collection of songs, the single was recently featured on 116: Ten Years Later, a colossal 76-track charity compilation from UK-based curator and artist WRONGPOP (Stephen Lee Clarke) raising over £2500.
Ten years ago, Clarke walked out of hospital after surviving cancer with just two weeks left to live. A stem cell transplant via Anthony Nolan—the UK charity that finds life-saving donor matches—changed everything.
Released exclusively on Bandcamp for one month only, the compilation features new, unreleased and rare tracks from names like Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, The Armed, Art Brut, Shit and Shine, Modern Technology, and Noah Ezra, a street musician Clarke met while travelling through Ecuador.
CHROMA will support PINS on two shows this September, and bilk. on their grassroots venue tour dates this October 2025, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).
October 2025 UK Tour Dates:
26.09.25 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete’s *
27.09.25 - Glasgow - Nice N Sleazy *
21.10.25 - Bedford - Esquires #
22.10.25 - Oxford - Bullingdon #
24.10.25 - Milton Keynes - Craufurd Arms #
25.10.25 - Bournemouth - Anvil #
26.10.25 - Guildford - Boiler Room #
01.11.25 - London - 100 Club #
* with PINS
# with bilk.
CHROMA are:
Katie Hall - Vocals/guitar
Liam Bevan - Bass
Zac Mather - Drums
CHROMA online:
https://www.chroma.band
https://www.facebook.com/CHROMAbanduk
https://twitter.com/chromabanduk
https://www.instagram.com/chromabanduk
More about CHROMA:
Influenced by the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and The Gossip, CHROMA have received a groundswell of radio support and playlisting from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Kerrang! Radio, Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru and ongoing support from BBC Introducing.
Boasting a healthy amount of live notches on their belt for a band who are still being found by new ears, they’ve previously appeared on renowned stages all over the world including Reading & Leeds Festival, BBC Radio 1’s Biggest Weekend, 2000 Trees Festival along with European festival appearances in the Netherlands, Italy, Barcelona and Brittany plus shows in New Zealand, South Korea and SXSW, Austin Texas.
Fresh from an appearance at DMZ Peace Train Festival in Korea, the band returned from an autumn 2023 cultural exchange visit to Aotearoa/New Zealand, as part of a project examining live music and its importance to minority languages.
Prosiect Pūtahitanga is a creative practice and research project led by Cardiff University in partnership with the University of Waikato and FOCUS Wales. It aims to find points of connection between te reo Māori (the Māori Language), te ao Māori (the Māori world/world view) and Welsh-language culture through the lens of each country’s music scene.
Most recently supporting the mighty Foo Fighters to a strong 20,000 crowd at Manchester’s Emirates Old Trafford, they've also played sold-out shows all over the UK with the likes of The Mysterines, IDLES, Peace, The Joy Formidable, VANT and Tigercub.
They’ve been added to key editorial playlists across Spotify, given televised performances on BBC Wales, ITV and S4C, featured regularly on FA Wales media content and Visit Wales, and seen press support from The Metro, Nation Cymru, PRS M for Music Magazine, South Wales Argus and Y Selar.
The band are also key ambassadors of Music Venue Trust, Ask For Angela (UK) and the Welsh Government’s Sound campaign which encourages young men to learn about gender-based violence and call out misogyny, sexism, violence against women.
Taking its name from the campaign of the same name launched to prevent sexual assault in the UK, the material on CHROMA’s debut album Ask For Angela variously reflects on the band’s collective experience growing up in the South Wales Valleys, and explores the myriad lived experiences of young women. Exploring infighting within the feminist movement, the oppression of trans rights in the UK, violence against women, and other weighty but hugely important topics, the trio ultimately invite the listener to a place of safety and empowerment with their inclusive music.
Previously-released 2023 singles ‘Don’t Wanna Go Out’, ‘Don’t Mind Me’ and ‘Woman To Woman’ picked up support from Huw Stephens at BBC 6music and BBC Wales, Alyx Holcombe at BBC R1, John Kennedy at Radio X, Amazing Radio, Total Rock and many more, plus a groundswell of grassroots tastemaker support from Complete Music Update, Under The Radar, BUZZ Magazine, God Is In The TV, Noizze, Stereoboard, Distorted Sound, Sweeping The Nation and more.
