"Guts is the alternative option to giving up and rolling over and accepting defeat"
Kicking off what they promise to be a busy 2025, Brit punk six-piece Jools have released a new single, the hyped-up Guts.
Explaining the song, the band say it deals with the choice between giving up and carrying on when you feel your dreams are being crushed.
"Guts references a time in our life when we felt utterly despaired and stuck in a situation we were in," they say. "We were struggling with artistic freedom and creation and felt stifled by the thought that maybe the dream - being successful as a band - was over for us. We’ve always believed in ourselves, and it was so frustrating to be in a scenario where it felt like we were waiting for everybody else to catch up.
"Guts is the alternative option to giving up and rolling over and accepting defeat. It’s about the determination, desire and even delusion at times, that we could break through the situation because we knew in our hearts we were destined for something more."
Check it out below.
The itchy, agitated music was written by guitarist Joe Dodd "after being trapped on a packed train and desperately wanting to get off. This kind of lends itself to the lyrical themes too- being in a figurative trapped space, being forced to stay there by external forces before eventually breaking through and ending up somewhere you feel free and joyful."
