New Music Friday, folks — Laissez-faire has landed and is ready to burrow into your ear canal like the proverbial worm. Crank it up loud, give it a spin, and share it with your friends. No friends? Enemies will do.

Dear readers, despite unpopular lack of demand, the blog is back! Join us as we take an epic journey through the depths of subterranean Edinburgh and into Al’s Barn, where we prepare our latest batch of “sonic treats” to be imbibed by the hungry algo-blins.

Not much to say in this one, other than our new single “Chairman” is now live! Crank it up and give it a spin, if you want to sing along here are the lyrics.

What do SOMB have in common with rats? Aside from the obvious physical similarities, the shared love of living off scraps and a mutual habit of bathing in other peoples rubbish, we apparently share the same taste in accommodation

Dear reader, if you made it through the first post, you’ll know this is a complete waste of your precious time, or maybe your time isn’t precious at all. Who knows, and ultimately, who actually cares.

The TL;DR is this: we messed around and recorded an EP, which was released in December 2024. Then, after some hard work from Jabba (Toby), we got involved in the wonderful community of online independent artists and radio stations.

If somehow you’ve landed on this corner of the internet reading this blog post, it’s likely you’ve come across us before, if so, we’re sorry. If not, welcome.

The idea of the blog is to give some much needed context to the endless stream of whimsical, and at times alarming, content you may have seen on our various social feeds. In this first post, we’ll dive into the brief and frankly boring backstory of SOMB: who we actually are and how we ended up delivering our noise to your unsuspecting ears.