SICK JOY release new single 'Cinnamon Burn'
SICK JOY release new single
‘Cinnamon Burn’
New album ‘More Forever’ due out 30th January 2026
UK/EU album tour in Jan/Feb 2026
Sick Joy have today unveiled their brand-new single, ‘Cinnamon Burn’, the latest track from their anticipated second album More Forever, set for release on 30th January 2026.
Produced by the acclaimed Alain Johannes (Queens Of The Stone Age, Chris Cornell, Them Crooked Vultures, Mark Lanegan), More Forever sees the Brighton-based outfit expand their sound into darker, more introspective territory - capturing the chaos, catharsis, and contradictions that define modern existence.
Speaking about the new single ‘Cinnamon Burn’, vocalist and guitarist Mykl Barton shares, “A song for the broken hearted, that just don't know when to quit.”
In a world increasingly defined by chaos, Sick Joy sharpen their vision through distortion.
The Brighton-based outlet, born from Newcastle’s underground and carried by the raw intensity of singer and multi-instrumentalist Mykl Barton, has always thrived in contrasts: beauty vs. ruin, euphoria vs. despair. More Forever, the new album that’s due out on 30th January 2026 sees Sick Joy push that duality further than ever before.
Recorded in isolation at a remote Spanish studio with Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell) before being mixed by Josh “Hoagie” Harrison (Royal Blood, The Cure) and mastered by Katie Tavini, the album twists Sick Joy’s alt-rock DNA into something darker, sharper, and more expansive. Industrial edges cut through widescreen choruses, bruising drums collide with jagged synths, and lyrics confront systemic damage, grief, love and survival with unflinching honesty.
Since their emergence, Sick Joy have become one of the UK’s most vital rock acts — touring with legends like Pixies and Pearl Jam, sharing bills with Dinosaur Pile-Up and Deaf Havana, and igniting festival crowds from Reading & Leeds to 2000 Trees. Their debut album cemented their reputation as a band unafraid to bare teeth and heart in equal measure.
More Forever doesn’t just continue that story - it blows it wide open. Heavier, hungrier, and more human than ever, Sick Joy are stepping forward with their most ambitious statement yet.
MORE FOREVER
TRACK LISTING:
1) Back At The Beginning
6) Gone Missing
7) Here We Are (Somewhere Liminal)
8) Stockholm Flavour
9) Video Game
10) Strawberries & Cigarettes
11) Somebody Else
12) Death Scene (More Forever)
Pre-Order ‘More Forever’:
Stream: Sick Joy - Cinnamon Burn
To celebrate the album’s release, Sick Joy will hit the road for a headline tour across the UK and Europe in early 2026, kicking off in Birmingham on January 29th before concluding in Paris on February 20th. Sick Joy will also be joining Grayscale across the UK this month.
Full dates below:
ON TOUR WITH GRAYSCALE:
NOVEMBER
17 Birmingham 02 Institute 3
18 Newcastle Think Tank
19 Glasgow Classic Grand
21 Leeds The Key Club
22 Nottingham Rough Trade
23 Manchester The Deaf Institute
25 Southampton The Joiners
26 Bristol The Fleece
27 London Underworld
SICK JOY ALBUM HEADLINE TOUR:
JANUARY
29 Birmingham Flapper
30 London Oslo
31 Cambridge The Blue Moon
FEBRUARY
3 Exeter Cavern
4 Bristol Exchange
6 Nottingham Bodega
7 Manchester Deaf Institute
8 Glasgow Hug & Pint
10 Newcastle Zerox
11 Norwich Voodoo Daddys
13 Brighton Dust
18 Amsterdam Cinetol
20 Paris Supersonic
