Krooked Tongue Announce Album Release and Share New Single “Blood Shark”

Bristol rock trio Krooked Tongue have announced their debut studio album, I Know A Place, set to arrive on April 24, 2026, on limited-edition vinyl. Alongside the album news, the band has unleashed their latest single, “Blood Shark,” out now: a track that doesn’t ease you in so much as it drags you under.

Produced by long-time collaborator Josh Gallop (Sergeant Thunderhoof, Mother Vulture) at Stage 2 Studios in Bath, “Blood Shark” rides a heady wave of guitar fuzz and vocal distortion from the opening note to the very last. It’s a chaotic collision of racing percussion, shape-shifting textures, and sledgehammer choruses—built to rattle the ribs and leave a mark.

At the center of the storm is vocalist Oli Rainsford, whose raspy, snarling delivery cuts through the noise with a lyrical barb aimed squarely at life’s turbulence and that particular kind of unfulfillment that creeps in when you’ve been standing still for too long.

“‘Blood Shark’ is a jumper cable to the lazy and uninspired aspects of ourselves,” Rainsford explains. “A fat uppercut to our excuses for why we can’t, or don’t do the things we want to do. Everyone experiences nodus tollens at some point in their existence. Where it seems the vicissitudes of life are too turbulent to navigate. The walls are closing in, and there’s not a ladder in sight. But we often need change to inspire the solution, taking a step back and approaching our inescapable slump from a different angle.”

It’s an unusually philosophical framing for a track that hits like a blunt instrument—but that’s the point. “Blood Shark” isn’t just catharsis; it’s confrontation. A demand to look at the parts of yourself that stall, settle, and self-sabotage—and to decide, in real time, whether you’re going to stay there.

“‘Blood Shark’ is a plea to find a will so strong that it becomes in itself unstoppable,” Rainsford continues. “The metaphor of the ‘Blood Shark’ encapsulates the foibles of our decisions. When it’s all said and done, when we’re being lowered into the ground, the ‘Blood Shark waits at the bottom of your grave’. It feasts on a life left unfulfilled, reassuring you with a beguiling grin that it’s OK that you didn’t follow your dreams. It’s a villainous reminder that there’s still time to fight back and give the big fish an inedible final judgement.”

That image—something waiting patiently at the bottom of your grave, feeding on the life you didn’t live—lands like a threat and a warning in the same breath. And Krooked Tongue delivers it with the kind of volume that makes denial impossible.

With I Know A Place due this April, “Blood Shark” reads like a mission statement: loud, distorted, and brutally honest about what it costs to keep postponing your own becoming.