UK experimental doom/drone/post-rock collective IAN presents debut album »Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!« via Human Worth!
London, UK based experimental doom/drone/post-rock collective IAN presents their debut album, »Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!«, which was just released on October 17th, 2025 via Human Worth.
IAN also dropped music videos for their singles »Fennel« and »Manuel«!
Tracklist:
01. Manuel
02. Building Pyramids
03. Fennel
04. Selma
05. Not Erotic / Cop Film (End Credits)
Courtesy of PR Trail:
East London based quintet ian bring a sense of jovial camaraderie through their heavy, loud and droning post-rock dirges on debut album »Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!«.
IAN (the band) are refreshing newcomers in the UK’s heavy underground. The East London based quintet will be releasing their stirring debut album »Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!« on Vinyl and Digital via independent label Human Worth on October 17th – a labour of love between five old friends and ex-bandmates from Exeter’s fertile early ’00s DIY punk scene. Self-described as “a band that appreciates the peaks and troughs of post-rock as much as the crunch of the riff,” IAN’s striking debut delivers five dirges that merge earth swallowing riffs with the atmospheres and dynamics of their post-rock heroes, such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, with the bite and visceral heft of Cult Of Luna and Amenra. Thoughtfully captured by Wayne Adams (Petbrick, Big Lad) at his London based Bear Bites Horse studio, IAN craft slowly mounting riffs, with anguished screams, woven with elegant cello playing, field recordings and earthy timbres. »Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!«, and the band IAN as a whole, is the culmination of 25 years of musical comradeship and the need to find inspiration in films, noise, and the drudgery of British life.
There’s a true sense of friendship and unity that permeates when listening to IAN. Though the quintet are fairly new on the UK scene, the band members have been friends and bandmates in various other ventures for over two decades. Having all worked at Exeter’s Cavern Club at some point, members of IAN played in two short-lived bands, Tyler and The Quiller Memorandum in the early ’00s, the former touring with Hell Is For Heroes. With some of the members being out of action for over a decade and following various different life pursuits, this group of friends were assembled back together sometime during the pandemic in the form of IAN. Wasting no time, by 2023 they were already playing shows across London, and going straight into writing this full length album. The quintet booked in with revered producer and engineer Wayne Adams at his London studio Bear Bites Horse, which has been home to Green Lung, USA Nails, John, Shooting Daggers, Vacuous, Wallowing and countless more heavy and leftfield greats. Adams brings a spacious touch to the record, creating the illusion of great expanse and allowing each instrument their times to be loud and prominent, as well as to withdraw into a more textural bedding.
Often very heavy, doomy music can come from heavy life experiences; musicians turning their real life tragedies, grief, and observations of austerity and political unrest into works of catharsis. This is not the case for IAN, who embrace humour and positivity, and want their cerebral music to incite warmth and a bit of fun. Fiery opener »Manuel« begins with a crunchy sludge metal assault and paint-stripping screams akin to Will Haven, gradually simmering down to a whisper, with sweeping cello and subdued guitars wandering hand in hand. »Building Pyramids« takes post-rock’s quiet-to-loud dynamics to an absurd degree, beginning silently and constantly growing larger and louder into a thunderous firework display. Leading single »Fennel« on the other hand is the most “metal” track, showcasing the aggression and heft of post-metal pioneers Neurosis and Cult Of Luna, resulting in a beautiful, soaring climax with an eerie yet shimmering melody. IAN cites Midsomer Murders as a key influence for this track. »Selma« on the other hand is a sorrowful and mourning mood piece where the cello takes the lead; the rest of the band patiently wait it out until the halfway mark. Here the drums become particularly animated, finding a driving groove that changes the course of the track completely.
Photo credit: Sunny Singh
IAN truly conclude their debut record by going out in a blaze of glory on their behemoth of a closer, »Not Erotic / Cop Film (End Credits)«. A gentle allure of natural guitar harmonics entwine with the majestic cello, sounding like the theme to an arthouse film. Producer Wayne Adams also plays mellotron on the track, the go to synthesiser that has become iconic on so many classic prog rock albums. The term “cinematic” is thrown around too easily in the realm of highly textured and atmospheric music, but IAN truly embody this sentiment right down to the double exposure of the cover art looking like a still movie frame. This thirteen minute epic is weepy and windswept, yet when it peaks it boasts the biggest riff you’ll hear in 2025, thus closing out a truly exhilarating and powerful listening experience; the original score to the imaginary film you dream of in your sleep.
»Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!« will be released on Vinyl and Digital formats on October 17th 2025 through revered UK DIY label Human Worth. A percentage of proceeds from Bandcamp purchases will be donated to registered UK charity Mermaids, supporting trans, non-binary and gender-questioning children and young people, and the important people in their lives since 1995. Human Worth are championing leftfield heavy, noisy and weird artists including Torpor, Sly & The Family Drone, Modern Technology, Remote Viewing, Why Patterns and more. IAN properly hit the live circuit as a quintet in 2023, nestling themselves in that grey area of being newcomers but honing a wealth of touring and recording experience between band members. The quintet have already made a strong impression performing live across the south of Britain, shining their uplifting communal light onto the darkest stages. IAN have performed live with the likes of Hundred Year Old Man, Kulk, Skloss, Holy Scum, Shy Low, A Burial At Sea, The Death Of Money and more.
“IAN is a whisper on the wind, the fur of a cat, the laugh of a baby, the scowl of an old man, the skin of a leper.” ~ IAN
Order »Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!« here: helloianband.bandcamp.com
Written and performed by IAN.
Recorded and produced by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse.
Mixed and mastered by Wayne Adams.
Cover photograph by Craig Murray.
Guest baritone guitar on »Building Pyramids« by Tom Bradley.
Guest mellotron on »Not Erotic / Cop Film (End Credits)« by Wayne Adams.
IAN are:
Hannah Asprey – Cello
Anna Jones – Bass
Craig Murray – Guitar and Samples
Ted Reynolds – Guitar and Vocals
Bob D’Mello – Drums
FFO: Cult Of Luna, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Amenra, Swans, Pijn.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well