Blue Bendy Launch New Album With “Dragonslayer” Video

Blue Bendy will return early next year with One Day This Will All Be Lore, the follow-up to their 2024 debut of absurdist indie-pop confessionals, So Medieval. Completed after a brief hiatus and the exit of two founding members, the album arrives on January 29, 2027. With the announcement comes a video directed by the London-based band’s own synthesist Olivia Morgan. Watch it below.

The departure of Blue Bendy co-founders Harrison Charles and Oscar Tebbutt is attributed, in a press release, to the struggles with alcoholism of frontperson Arthur Nolan (pictured crouching in the foreground). Charles and Tebbutt are replaced by bassist Dina Willcock and drummer Tristan Petsola; original guitarists Joe Nash and Oliver Chester-Nolan, alongside Morgan and Nolan, complete the lineup. A 2025 episode in which a recovering Nolan fell off the wagon, was marooned in Germany, and came around in a sanatorium in Cologne is documented in an album track called “The Tiger Who Came to Tea.”

Nolan says of “Dragonslayer,” “I was trying to subvert some Arthurian chivalry in a modern context. Especially as that medieval period is such a traditionally idolised time. Trying to look at Nationalistic mythology wrapped in a tragicomic romantic pop song, and the fantasies that any musician tells themself about fame, living in your own head.”

Of the video, Morgan added, “I got a camera earlier this year and decided to try and answer every question i've ever had and analyse why everyone does any of the things they do in a 4 and a half minute sequence of videos. I’ve not made a music video before or done much with film at all but I want to learn how to do that so this is experiment one.”

Check out the album tracklist and artwork below. The band has also announced shows in London, Manchester, and Glasgow.

One Day This Will All Be Lore:
01 Dragonslayer
02 Poke
03 The Curve
04 Small Fortunes
05 Confession Rock
06 Accidentany
07 Vocal Fry Academia
08 Happy Birthday
09 The Tiger Who Came to Tea

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