Jamie Lenman Announces Sixth Album 'Puke' With New Single You're Nothing
Thursday, 04 June 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Jamie Lenman has laid out plans for his new album.
'Puke' will arrive on August 6, following up the former Reuben frontman turned solo artist's 2023 EP 'Iknowyouknowiknow' and 2022 album 'The Atheist'. Recorded over two years, working whenever inspiration struck, it finds Lenman taking a simpler, more stripped back approach to writing and recording, which helped give the songs a rougher, heavier sound. He explained:
"I made this album completely by accident and really, it's not an album, although it is unified by the fact that nothing took more than a day to make, and I didn't do more than three takes of anything. That method lends itself to a punkier, more aggressive sound, so it does have a certain accidental cohesion. I spent a lot of time really crafting my last album, and this is a response to that process.
"I did the first couple of tracks with Luke Pickering just for fun, purely because he invited me to the studio, and then later I discovered that one of my heroes (Dick Crippen, bass player for seventies punks Ten Pole Tudor) had a place just down the road, so I more or less booked the session just so I could meet him and then I had to bring some songs to justify that.
"By that time I was enjoying it so much that I would end up finding a studio and/or an engineer wherever I was, just to give myself some time to experiment or to make a connection. So one of the tracks I did in Birmingham whilst visiting a friend, one I did in a studio next to my house that I didn't previously know existed, just for the craic and to see what would happen. And by the time I had a handful, I realised I should probably put them together in some form so people could hear what I'd been up to."
Alongside the announcement, Lenman has shared You're Nothing, a fierce, punchy alt-rock offering that shows off the heavier side of his songwriting. He said:
"Lyrically You're Nothing is about putting people away, especially people who seem to think their views are in some way clever or important. Really I'm talking about the kind of bigot who absolutely can't help themselves from spouting hurtful nonsense, or someone giving it the big I Am - I'm just trying to take these people down a peg. You know, why should we listen to you? Sit down mate."
The track follows his earlier single, Not Likely, with both songs available exclusively via Bandcamp, where the album will also be released, with fans able to purchase music for whatever price they choose.
"When I put Not Likely on Bandcamp in April for pay-what-you-want, I made more money than any other single I've ever released, and actually more than some of my entire albums," Lenman shared. "All of that goes straight back into making more art, so I'm very much hoping that by putting the whole of 'Puke' on that platform under the same terms, I might be able to fund a larger, more focussed project with the proceeds. Whether you join the Patreon for a quid or send fifty pence to the Bandcamp, it all goes in the same pot and it all means the same thing: more music from me.”
Expanding on how the record was made entirely through funds generated by his Patreon, he said: "This entire project, from the actual sessions to my train fare and even the sandwiches I bring with me, has been funded by the subscriptions from my Patreon. That's revolutionary for me, a totally new way of working without the pressures and expectations of a traditional label-artist setup and has resulted in my falling back in love with the studio.
"It was never my intention to use those funds to make a new album, but I found I had a small sum left over from paying the bills, so I was able to use it for that purpose and here we are. I rely on my Patrons and they get the best of everything - not just first dibs on all the new material, but unheard demos, artwork, videos, everything. It's a total game-changer for me."
Fresh from recent performances at the Alt Escape and supporting Texas Is The Reason, Lenman is set to appear at ArcTanGent festival on August 22. Tickets are on sale now.
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