REVIEW: Femur return with new single ‘P.O.P’
Femur are back!
Three words that any real music fan should relish and savour. One of the most exciting bands coming out of Sheffield have returned from their gallivanting at Glastonbury to bless us all with a brand new single, just in time for their slot on the main stage at Tramlines. This doesn’t feel like your typical single release, but a lap of honour, a Roman-esque triumph; Femur have reached a new height in their career, and ‘P.O.P' is the perfect tune to enshrine this rise.
Produced by Sheffield’s very own Ross Orton, the famed producer who has worked with the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Amyl and the Sniffers, ‘P.O.P’ takes Femur’s typical garage/psych sound and combines it with an almost 60s surf-rock energy. Lead singer Felix Renshaw’s vocals frantically dance around the marching drum beat and piercing guitar riffs, as the song ensnares you straight away in its chaotic sound.
Femur performing at Glastonbury 2025.
The collective shouts that underscore the chorus create a cult-like atmosphere to the song, a hypnotic quality that seemingly all of Femur’s best tracks have. Their sound pulls you into whatever moshpit you may be near, or inducing you to start your own. “He’s the one who sold his soul’, lead-singer Felix declares, and ‘P.O.P’ truly sounds like the soundtrack to such a transaction. Sonically a spiritual successor to their 2022 track ‘Comeback Kid’, P.O.P enthralls the listener in such a way that you cannot help but play it over and over again.
The production has a slightly cleaner sound than Femur’s previous tracks, which works to create the aforementioned surf-rock edge the track has, as if Dick Dale collaborated with King Gizzard. The last thing anyone could ever accuse Femur of is being boring, and this track definitely cements them as one of the most musically interesting bands coming out of Sheffield at the moment.
Lead singer Felix Renshaw crowd-surfing at Femur’s sell-out show at The Leadmill in March 2025.
If ‘P.O.P’ is anything to go by, Femur are moving fast, and moving up. Don’t miss out before it’s too late.
‘P.O.P’ will be released on 25th July. You can pre-save the song by clicking this link.
