Single Review: The Snuts – Summer Rain

SUMMER RAIN

With ‘Summer Rain’, The Snuts return not with a victory lap but with something far more affecting. It’s their first new music since 2024 and the sound of a band quietly resetting, swapping bravado for bruised honesty as they step into a new chapter.

Written after time spent back home in West Lothian, ‘Summer Rain’ feels rooted, not just geographically but emotionally. This is The Snuts at their most personal, tackling the kind of real-life upheaval that rarely gets sung about with this much openness.

Frontman Jack Cochrane has spoken candidly about the period that inspired the track, explaining:

“My wife was struggling really badly with postnatal depression… We had a kid when the band had just released our third album and were on tour. That’s way too much to be doing with a newborn.”

That sense of emotional overload seeps into the song’s core. Lyrically, ‘Summer Rain’ works through the harsh comedown from the “rock ’n’ roll circus” and the uncomfortable realisation that you can’t fix everything by sheer force of will as Cochrane admits,

“I thought that I could just fix it, that’s a classic man thing, then I had to actually grow up.”

It’s a moment of self-awareness that gives the track its weight, framing themes of change, fear of the future and a genuine plea to reclaim some sense of functional happiness.

Musically, The Snuts strike that familiar but evolving balance. Despite the heaviness of its subject matter, ‘Summer Rain’ steadily opens outwards, building towards an anthemic crescendo that feels hopeful rather than hollow. The light-and-shade dynamic keeps the song grounded, offering warmth without glossing over the reality underneath.

That contrast is echoed visually too, with the accompanying video placing stark, solitary moments alongside scenes of colour and life, reinforcing the song’s message of reflection and renewal.

As the first glimpse of The Snuts’ forthcoming fourth album, due in 2026, ‘Summer Rain’ points to a band growing up in public, they are still capable of writing big choruses but now unafraid to sit with the messier parts of life. It’s honest, human and quietly powerful.

The Snuts hit the road in March.

Get tickets here: https://thesnuts.os.fan/

12th March – Lincoln, Engine Shed
13th March – Stoke-on-Trent, Victoria Hall
14th March – Leicester, O2 Academy Leicester
16th March – Frome, Cheese and Grain
18th March – Brighton, Chalk
19th March – Cambridge, Cambridge Corn Exchange
20th March – Oxford, O2 Academy Oxford
22nd March – Warrington, Pyramid and Parr Hall