Hadda Be – New To The Office (LNFG / Bada Bing)
With drawling vocals and angular post-punk guitars Hadda Be set us to work with latest single New To The Office.
Artist: Hadda Be
Track: New To The Office
Label: LNFG/Bada Bing
Released: 9 October 2025
Find it: Bandcamp
Kicking off with a bassline that makes you twitch like a bad case of the Sunday scaries London’s Hadda Be draw us in to single New To The Office.
Sharp guitars break in interplaying with vocals drawling surrealist lyrics. This is the weirdness of committing ourselves to an office life, the relentless cradle-to-grave rat race vibes building into frenzied whirls, before dropping away to not much more than sing-song vocal. As soon as you feel you have the measure of the track it changes pace again, the maelstrom back, gone, back.
Angular guitars, arty tempo changes and half-spoken vocals, absurdity and anger hold hands and spin you round. There is intensity by the bucketload, and all in a track which shoots through you until you can’t resist shaking down with it.
‘I saw two lights shine overhead / They’ll fill the world or break it’
Speaking to Joyzine the band said of the track, “New to the Office was the last song we recorded during our first stint with Stereolab’s Andy Ramsey in his south London studio.
“It’d been an intense few days, over a chillingly cold February weekend, and we were ready to let loose on this one.
“I think you can hear that in the performances. The track itself is inspired by those vivid, surreal anxiety dreams you might get on a Sunday night, ahead of the working week.”
New To The Office by Hadda Be is out digitally on LNFG and Bada Bing now.
Find Hadda Be: Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook
Live dates:
- 15 October – The Windmill, Brixton
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Sarah Lay
A long-standing music journalist she's also co-founder of independent record label Reckless Yes, an author of novels, and when not messing around with words and music, a digital strategist.
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