LUFT Unveil Details Of First Full-Length Album
By LUFT
Featuring Tom Dougall ex of TOY, the Berlin based 5-piece announce details of their Luke Haines produced album, Hellingly.
Out 5th February 2027 via Tough Love.
On tour with Graham Coxon in November.
Produced by Auteurs/Black Box Recorder maestro Luke Haines, the 10-track album is out on Friday 5th February 2027 via Tough Love.
The track listing of the album is as follows:
Green Lantern
Cat’s Cradle
Hellingly
Tinseltown
The Punch and Judy Man
Lady Midday
Cruise Control
My Third Eye
London
Something On My Mind
Cat. Number: TLV183
Formats: 12” / LP / CD / DL
Pre-order the album HERE.
Additionally, today sees the release of ‘Cat’s Cradle’, the latest track from the album. This follows the release of their debut single ‘The Punch and Judy Man’ in late July which was quickly followed with a second single, ‘Something On My Mind’.Finally, having played a handful of headline shows earlier in the year, this November sees the band head out for a few U.K. dates supporting Graham Coxon. The list of dates is as follows.
Luft on tour with Graham Coxon:
22.11.26 – Liquid Rooms – EDINBURGH
23.11.26 – New Century Hall – MANCHESTER
24.11.26 – DIVE – WOLVERHAMPTON (headline show)
25.11.26 – Electric – BRISTOL
26.11.26 – Concorde – BRIGHTON
28.11.26 – Kentish Town Forum – LONDON
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Featuring Ani Mijatović (keys), Sam Davies (guitar), Rob Henderson (bass) and Aaron Liam Singh (drums) alongside Tom Dogall, Luft formed following Dougall’s relocation from London, after his previous band, TOY, entered an indefinite hiatus and the group emerged from a period of personal and creative transition.
Their debut album, Hellingly, is a ten-track exploration of displacement, nostalgia, excess and endurance, shaped by the contrasting worlds of London, Berlin and the English countryside. Reflecting on a changing England, Dougall’s songwriting captures the effects of gentrification, the cost-of-living crisis and the fading rituals of a bygone era, while finding new possibilities in the energy and hedonism of Berlin. Wistful and urbane, romantic yet unsentimental, the album inhabits a nocturnal world where the familiar and the strange continually collide.
The album takes its title from a former mental asylum near Dougall’s childhood home in East Sussex. Demolished in 2010 to make way for new housing, the building remains a powerful symbol of the troubled alternative worlds and lingering memories that inform the record.
Produced by Luke Haines, whose own work has explored similarly distinctive English landscapes, Hellingly combines sharp, melodic songwriting with mordant wit and vivid, observational storytelling. While Dougall is the principal songwriter, the album is a collaborative achievement, enriched by Mijatović’s spectral vocals and elegant keys, Davies’ psychedelic guitar work, and the tightly interwoven rhythms of Henderson and Singh.
Drawing on touchstones ranging from the Kinks and krautrock to Lou Reed and Marc Bolan, Luft forge a sound and identity entirely their own. Hellingly is a portrait of England viewed from a distance: a journey through strange worlds, shaped by the pull of a past that remains difficult to leave behind.