New Music – Trashcan Sinatras – The Bitter End

It’s the first new piece of music from the Trashcan Sinatras in four long years, but there’s more to come! The Bitter End is the first single from their new album, with more details on that release to follow. For the time being, enjoy another melodic gem from Irvine’s finest below…

It’s been four long years but Scotland’s legendary, lyrical indie pop songsmiths Trashcan Sinatras are BACK! The original line-up, led by charismatic front man, Francis Reader, release ‘The Bitter End’, their first new music since 2022 on Tue 24 February 2026.

A typically taut three minutes of crystal cut, jangle-imbued anthemism, the single comes as they mark 40 years as a band in 2026. Leading lights of Scotland’s observational, literary and frequently romantic guitar music revolution, the Trashcans ignited their long, unhurried journey initially supercharged by the band’s 1990 debut album, Cake and standout hit single, Obscurity Knocks. A further five albums, including their third album, A Happy Pocket, originally released in 1993, yet finding reissue success in 2023 with a return to the UK Official Albums Chart, have emerged in between bursts of international touring.

Self-deprecatingly accepting of a “less careerist and more careering” definition of what it has been to be Trashcan Sinatras over the last forty years, the band’s latest work finds the band on the same, bashfully ambitious footing as ever. Please check it out here:

The Bitter End