After breaking up in 2014, UK emo band Crash of Rhinos returned to social media earlier this month with a cryptic video, and now they’ve announced their first new album in over a decade. They’re self-releasing Logbook on May 22. It was recorded and mixed by Jim Cork, mastered by Katie Tavini, and they write, “We got back together. We wrote some new songs. We set up our gear in an empty library in our hometown and a remote barn in Cumbria to record ourselves. What we made is called Logbook and it comes out 22nd May 2026.” They’ve shared the opening track and lead single, “Figures of Light,” and you can hear that and see the cover art and tracklist below.
The band have also announced their first shows since 2013, which are currently all in Europe and happen around Leeds’ Quiet Steps Fest, which is also with Braid, Faraquet, Hey Mercedes, Delta Sleep, and more. They say there are “maybe a few more” still to be announced; stay tuned.
We included Crash of Rhinos’ last album, Knots, in our list of 25 classic emo & post-hardcore albums from 2013, where Andrew wrote:
“Midwest emo” gets its name because that specific style of emo originated in the Midwestern United States, but it influenced bands all over the world, like UK band Crash of Rhinos, who channelled the Kinsellas and their friends across two albums in the early 2010s. Their second and final LP was Knots, an album that revived a handful of ’90s-era influences without ever sounding like one band in particular. Across its 52-and-a-half minute runtime, Knots channelled everything from Cap’n Jazz’s chaos to Mineral’s expansive post-rocky emo to Hot Water Music’s gritty post-hardcore, and repackaged it as something Crash of Rhinos could call their own. This was undeniably a “revival” of a past era of emo, but it sounded fresh in 2013 and it still sounds fresh ten years later. At this point, mathy guitar noodling and scratchy off-key shouting are just fully ingrained in underground emo’s DNA, but Knots still does those things in a way that stands out from the ever-growing pack.
Read the full list here.
CRASH OF RHINOS – LOGBOOK TRACKLIST
1. Figures of Light
2. Years Out
3. Recurring
4. Errata
5. Exercise in Memory
6. Every Dark
7. Meeting at Distance
CRASH OF RHINOS: 2026 TOUR DATES
Fri 17th July – Nottingham – Bodega *
Sat 18th July – Leeds – Quiet Steps Fest
Thu 23rd July – Brescia – TBC #
Fri 24th July – Rome – Monk #
Sat 25th July – Umbertide – Italian Party #
Sat 1st August – London – Moth Club *
Sat 15th August – Bristol – The Louisiana
* with Real Terms
# with Fine Before You Came