Hen Ogledd release new song "End of the rhythm"
19th February 2026
Today, to herald the arrival of DISCOMBOBULATED, Hen Ogledd’s confounding and haunting third album – out this Friday 20th February - the band share new track “End of the rhythm”.
“End of the rhythm” evokes a chaotic dance capable of transcending enclosure and moving towards rapture, release and healing, anchored by Dawn Bothwell’s steely insistence that “They want us to fail, but workers can win.”
The video for “End of the rhythm” is directed by James Hankins, who says: “For this third and final DISCOMBOBULATED video I wanted to blast off into space… sort of. Inspired by early 90's rave visuals and similar computer animations from that time, we started creating a bunch of different gaudy vibrant visuals that we would then take into our 3D world and apply to the objects we built. From the start of this project, I wanted to make three videos that felt connected in a way but that also looked completely different from each other.”
Hen Ogledd will be performing a special 8-hour sound-ritual in the most haunted and wondrous locale of The Horse Hospital in London on June 6th. Splintering their latest album DISCOMBOBULATED through prisms of drone, improvisation, dance, caterwauling, kinetic-sculpture, befuddlement, squelching, dreamiest of dream-pop, ha-ha-harp, horrible stuff, coo-ing and large blasts - this extended un-concert is bound to be an immersive overwhelming experience and a pivotal moment in the history of people having a nice time.
DISCOMBODURATION explores themes of collapse, persistence, and collective imagination. With costume and a life(ish) size, ‘pop up book set’ artist Rachael MacArthur will bring forth a lucid psychogenic fantasy episodic landscape with each stage of the performance. Hen Ogledd are exploring what it means to perform through crisis, to dance, speak, and imagine within the ruins, and to build, even temporarily, a space for a shared vision. DISCOMBODURATION takes place on 6th June, from 2pm til 10pm for its entirety, or drop in as you please/at your own peril. RSVP to DISCOMBODURATION here.
Hen Ogledd DISCOMBOBULATED
Album | 20th February 2026
DISCOMBOBULATED is the confounding and haunting new album from Hen Ogledd, the collaborative project of artists Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington. It's perhaps their most complex and emotionally charged record to date, involving meditations on political tumult, personal crisis and mental wellbeing in a world gone mad, yet also their most warmly inclusive and accessible. It features collaborations from avant-garde legends, family members, animals and even elements. By turns emphatic and vulnerable, subtle and direct, joyous and furious, DISCOMBOBULATED is as strange, complex and moving a record as we have come to expect from Hen Ogledd.
Hen Ogledd DISCOMBOBULATED
Album | 20th February 2026
DISCOMBOBULATED is the confounding and haunting new album from Hen Ogledd, the collaborative project of artists Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington. It's perhaps their most complex and emotionally charged record to date, involving meditations on political tumult, personal crisis and mental wellbeing in a world gone mad, yet also their most warmly inclusive and accessible. It features collaborations from avant-garde legends, family members, animals and even elements. By turns emphatic and vulnerable, subtle and direct, joyous and furious, DISCOMBOBULATED is as strange, complex and moving a record as we have come to expect from Hen Ogledd.
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