Ringlets have been gathering momentum since 2021, and now they’re taking that slow-burn ascent out of Aotearoa and into the wider world.
This May, the quartet will set out on their debut UK and European tour, a run that trades familiarity for friction. It’s the kind of move that doesn’t guarantee anything, just a van, a handful of songs, and the quiet confidence that they might land somewhere new. If their trajectory so far is anything to go by, they’re not arriving untested. Backseat Mafia has already seen Ringlets in full flight on stage in Sydney.
Support slots alongside Sorry, The Damned and Black Country, New Road, coupled with a turn at Laneway Festival, have positioned Ringlets as a live act that thrives in the unpredictable space between structure and collapse. Their shows don’t feel rehearsed so much as reassembled in real time.
That instinct carries through to their second album, The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies), a record that sharpens their edges without sanding them down. Produced alongside Michael Logie and later mixed at Abbey Road Studios by Isaac Keating, it’s a collection that feels more cohesive, but never fixed in place.
Whether that translates to audiences in London, Scotland or Berlin is another question entirely. But Ringlets don’t seem particularly concerned with certainty. The tour isn’t about arrival. It’s about what happens when the familiar dissolves and something new takes its place.
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