Molly Rocket Unveil New EP 'The Dogs Are Barking', Share Lead Single ‘Another Year’
The EP includes the previously released singles ‘Breathing Lead’ and ‘When He Walks Around’.
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Adelaide favourites Molly Rocket’s much-anticipated EP The Dogs Are Barking is finally here.
The EP comprises five songs, including the previously released singles ‘Breathing Lead’ and ‘When He Walks Around’, and lead track ‘Another Year’.
Speaking on the new track, the band says, “‘Another Year’ is a gritty rock song with pop moments woven through it. The lyrics sit inside a person’s inner monologue as they wrestle with thoughts of death. As the song unfolds, they choose numbness over dying, buying themselves more time as the weight of that reality slowly sinks in. Ocean imagery runs throughout the lyrics, touching on ideas of ownership, fear, and losing a sense of self as everything starts to shift around them.”
Recorded at Melbourne’s Wrangler Studios with Tim Maxwell (LOSER), the EP was written over the course of a year and explores “the complexities and uncertainties of life.”
“In those early stages it was really only melodies and chord progressions taking shape. Over the months that followed, those sketches slowly turned into something that felt like ours. Lyrically, we leaned into a more poetic approach than we ever had before, focusing on how certain words or phrases made us feel and trusting that those feelings might land with other people too,” the band says.
“Across The Dogs Are Barking, the lyrics reflect a lot of uncertainty and the worry that comes with it. That was heavily influenced by the wider challenges happening around us while we were writing. Even so, there are small moments of optimism woven throughout the EP, little flashes of light cutting through all that uncertainty. The songs came together through collaboration. As a band we reworked structures, tempos, rhythms and overall atmosphere until everything felt right. We shaped each song around everyone’s strengths, so that in the end each of us filled a piece of the puzzle and the EP felt complete.”
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Having supported Grinspoon, Gyroscope and Magic Dirt and DZ Deathrays over the past couple of months, Molly Rocket are pumped for their own headline tour in support of The Dogs Are Barking.
Beginning in Melbourne at Nighthawks on Saturday 21 March, the tour continues with a hometown show at Adelaide’s The Ed Castle on Saturday 28 March, Sydney’s Buddy’s on Thursday 2 April and Wollongong’s Towradgi Beach Hotel on Friday 3 April.
The Dogs Are Barking is out now. Listen here. Catch Molly Rocket at The Ed Castle on Saturday 28 March. Tickets on sale at moshtix.com.au.
Molly Rocket Australian Tour Dates 2026
Saturday 21 March – Nighthawks, Melbourne, VIC
Saturday 28 March – The Ed Castle, Adelaide, SA
Thursday 2 April – Buddy’s, Sydney, NSW
Friday 3 April – Towradgi Beach Hotel, Wollongong, NSW FREE ENTRY
