Special Interest – Endure

Endure is a thrilling leap for Special Interest, sharpening their ferocity while widening the lens. The record splices industrial thump, glam swagger, and sweat-slicked club rhythms into songs that move bodies and aim straight at the world’s pressure points. Hooks surface through the din, synths glitter against serrated guitars, and Alli Logout’s vocals channel urgency into catharsis without losing the band’s underground bite.

What makes Endure so compelling is how purpose and pleasure lock together. These tracks feel built for rooms where community matters: call-and-response choruses, stomping drum machine patterns, and basslines that turn agitation into momentum. It’s an album about surviving and insisting on joy, but it never softens its stance—the energy stays volatile, the ideas feel lived-in, and the band sound bigger, braver, and more focused than ever.

Reviews

"On their remarkable third album, the New Orleans band pushes their sound to both its bleakest and its sweetest brinks. Pop, disco, and house all melt into their raucous, revolutionary glam punk." – Pitchfork

"Endure is their most complete work yet, and it feels like there’s so much more to come." – Loud and Quiet

"Endure presents Special Interest’s most inventive, playful and accomplished music to date." – The Quietus

"Special Interest have managed that most difficult transition, maturing without dulling, and setting up a potentially spectacular second act for an already strong band." – The Line of Best Fit

"‘Endure’ marks Special Interest’s debut for Rough Trade and manages to plant a foot in both worlds - the resolutely uncompromising punks of old, and a band capable of infiltrating at least the more alternative end of the radio - with gusto." – DIY Magazine