Album Review: Kid Kapichi – Fearless Nature
FEARLESS NATURE
Kid Kapichi have never been a band for keeping their heads down, from baiting Westminster with ‘Party At No.10‘ to tearing into Brexit-era absurdity on ‘Can EU Hear Me‘, the Hastings four-piece have built their reputation on confrontation, volume and saying the quiet part far too loudly. So on paper, calling their fourth album ‘Fearless Nature‘ feels bang on.
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This record isn’t just Kid Kapichi doing Kid Kapichi things again, there’s a shift in the air.
The album kicks off with ‘Leader Of The Free World‘ and it wastes no time reminding you exactly who you’re dealing with. It’s classic Kid Kapichi, sharp, snarling and aimed straight at hollow leadership and empty slogans. As openers go, it’s a mission statement in familiar territory but delivered with renewed purpose.
Lead single ‘Stainless Steel‘ then pulls the rug slightly. When Jack Wilson drops the album title, it’s not fired out like a slogan but thrown back at himself, “Are you scared of your fearless nature?” It’s followed by the bruised admission that he’s “not made of stainless steel… made of blood, made of bone”. The riffs still snap, the rhythm section still hits hard but this time there’s doubt bleeding through the cracks.
Written during a turbulent summer in 2024, ‘Fearless Nature‘ captures Wilson at a crossroads. A relationship breakdown and a bout of depression flipped his writing inward, shifting from outward-facing fury to something more vulnerable and unsettled. These songs don’t just shout at the state of the nation, they pace the room at 3am, turning things over again and again.
That emotional shift finds one of its clearest expressions on ‘Worst Kept Secret‘, the final track written for the album and arguably the most obvious single-ready moment on the record. Sonically, it locks into a swaggering, hypnotic groove, nodding towards Kasabian’s knack for swagger without ever stepping into imitation. It’s sharp, confident and built to stick, the sound of a band knowing exactly when to let a song do the heavy lifting.
Elsewhere, ‘Fearless Nature‘ continues to shift shape, never settling in one emotional lane for long. ‘Dark Days‘ is one of the album’s most unsettling moments, a track that slinks rather than sprints. The groove struts with purpose but it’s backed by a constant low-level paranoia, like walking tall while checking over your shoulder. It’s tense, moody and quietly unnerving.
‘Patience‘ offers a brief but welcome change of scenery. There’s a playful looseness to it, almost ‘Whippin’ Piccadilly‘-era Gomez in its bounce and swing, but Kid Kapichi can’t help themselves, there’s still a darker and more menacing edge lurking underneath. It’s light on its feet, but it’s never naïve.
That unease creeps straight back in on ‘Head Right‘, dragging the album into a fog of sleep-deprived paranoia. It sounds like a mind refusing to switch off, thoughts looping and spiralling as the track pulls you back into the album’s anxious core. Restless, wired and deliberately uncomfortable.
The personal and political collide again on ‘Dark Days Are Coming‘, where Wilson wrestles with intrusive thoughts before turning the spotlight outward to the wider rot of austerity-era Britain. Even as the band look inward, the fire aimed at the system still burns just as bright.
The album also lands at a turning point for Kid Kapichi themselves, recorded with the original line-up before guitarist Ben Beetham and drummer George Macdonald stepped away in 2025, ‘Fearless Nature‘ now sits between eras. With new members Lee Martin and Miles Gill onboard, the band sound re-energised rather than disrupted with the reset adding spark rather than slowing momentum.
The closing stretch throws one last curveball. ‘Saviour‘, arrives as a genuinely beautiful moment of warmth, a love song of sorts but one without fairytale gloss. Compared to the emotional weight of what comes before, it feels like stepping out of a rough patch and realising you can finally breathe again. It warms the heart, catches you off guard and leaves a smile whether you were ready for it or not.
‘Rabbit Hole‘, brings the album to a close and refuses to tie things up neatly. Instead, it lingers, reflective and unresolved, leaving you wanting to dive straight back in and retrace the journey from the start to work out exactly how it all led here.
Taken as a whole, ‘Fearless Nature‘ feels like a proper journey. Messy, tense, cathartic and ultimately rewarding. More than anything, it’s the most cohesive record Kid Kapichi have made to date, a full-bodied statement rather than a loose collection of songs, pulling you from start to finish without letting go.
It also feels like a turning-point album, the kind of record that reshapes how a band is seen rather than just adding more songs to the setlist. Much like ‘Romance‘ did for Fontaines D.C., ‘Fearless Nature‘ has the sense of a band levelling up, sharpening their identity, widening their reach and stepping confidently from ones to watch into genuine headline territory, without ever losing the grit that got them here.
we may only be into the second week of January but it already feels like we could be looking at a serious contender for album of the year.
