have shared their new single ‘Rod For My Back’.

The new single represents the band’s first piece of new music in 12 months, but behind that number lies a lot of work, and a great deal of personal change.

Relocating to London brought a shift in perspective, with Cliffords steadily working on their keenly anticipated debut album.

New single ‘Rod For My Back’ ignites their return – recorded in London with producer Kev Jones (Wunderhorse, Little Grandad), it’s a potent and punchy piece of indie rock, one that takes aim at the constrictions wrought by mainstream ideas of ‘Irishness’.

‘Rod For My Back’ is a story about being misunderstood and commodified for a culture in which we always felt like outsiders.

As a queer woman who didn’t fit the conventional norms of GAA clubs and the Catholic Church, I never quite felt “Irish” enough.

When we started touring around the UK for the first time, we were quickly put into a cultural box, as were the rest of our Irish peers. It felt as if our unique identities as Irish people were distilled down to an idea of culture which we never felt a part of, as if we had been washed away in a new wave of G-splitting Plastic Paddy enthusiasts.

Tune in now.