Sleaford Mods have announced a new album, The Demise of Planet X. It’s their first album in three years, and it will be out January 16 via Rough Trade. It features a number of guest contributors, including Aldous Harding, former Life Without Buildings singer Sue Tompkins, reggae artist Liam Bailey, UK grime rapper Snowy, actress Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones / Severance), and Big Special.
“The Demise of Planet X represents a life lived under immense uncertainty, shaped by mass trauma,” says frontman Jason Williamson. “When we wrote the last album, it was about stagnation, a country that felt like a lifeless corpse. Three years later, that corpse has been split open by war, genocide, and the lingering psychological fallout of Covid whilst social media has mutated into a grotesque, twisted form of digital engineering. It feels like we’re living among the ruins. A multi-layered abomination etched into our collective psyche.”
Williamson adds, “I don’t want to pat myself on the back while the rest of the world falls to shit, but we’re really happy with The Demise of Planet X. The music and ideas are fresh and it’s in your face, but it pays to put your glasses on to look at the ingredients.”
The album includes “Megaton,” which was released earlier this year, and the new single is “The Good Life,” which features a hook by Big Special and some wild ranting by Gwendoline Christie, who can clearly go toe-to-toe with Williamson. “’The Good Life’ talks about slagging bands off and the joy and misery that causes me,” says Williamson. “I’m asking myself why am I slagging bands off? Why is it a continuing thing with me? My inner voices are brought to life by Gwendoline and Big Special, debating that internal tension between me enjoying a good life or submitting to the mayhem.”
Watch “The Good Life” video, directed by filmmaker Ben Wheatley (In the Earth, Kill List), below.
Sleaford Mods will support the new album on a UK tour next year and those dates are listed below.
In other news, Jason Williamson stars in the new thriller film Game which was co-written and produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak>).
The Demise of Planet X:
The Good Life (feat. Gwendoline Christie + Big Special)
Double Diamond
Elitist G.O.A.T. (feat. Aldous Harding)
Megaton
No Touch (feat. Sue Tompkins)
Bad Santa
The Demise Of Planet X
Don Draper
Gina Was
Shoving the Images
Flood the Zone (feat. Liam Bailey)
Kill List (feat. Snowy)
The Unwrap
Sleaford Mods 2026 UK/IE Tour Dates:
February 6 – Glasgow @ Barrowland Ballroom
February 7 – Manchester @ Academy
February 12 – Leeds @ O2 Academy
February 13 – Liverpool @ O2 Academy
February 14 – Cardiff @ Great Hall
February 19 – Dublin @ 3Olympia Theatre
February 20 – Belfast @ Limelight
February 21 – Cork @ Cyprus Avenue
February 26 – Oxford @ O2 Academy
February 27 – Nottingham @ Rock City
February 28 – Nottingham @ Rock City
March 5 – Bristol @ Beacon
March 6 – Brighton @ Dome
March 7 – London @ O2 Academy Brixton