Corella have released ‘Bitter End’, the latest single from their forthcoming second album A Beautiful World To Lose, due on 18 September 2026 via FLG. The track arrives with a video.
The Manchester band come out swinging on ‘Bitter End’, a scorching indie rock cut that wastes no time, tearing forward in a frenzy of distortion and pounding drums. Frontman Joel Smith plays ringmaster throughout, his snarl aimed squarely at the circus of modern life and the scramble for success.
Smith frames the song as a study of ambition and its costs. “‘Bitter End’ captures that restless drive to chase something bigger, exploring the highs, chaos and obsession that come with wanting more out of life,” he explains. “It plays with the idea of the modern dream, success, excess, and the determination to keep pushing no matter the cost.”
The band gave the song its first airing on a whistlestop headline run across the North of England, packing out six intimate venues and pulling several A Beautiful World To Lose tracks into the set for the first time. The chaos of those shows feeds directly into the ‘Bitter End’ video.
Produced by Grammy winner Jason Perry, whose credits include The Molotovs, McFly and Don Broco, the album finds Corella sharpening their early indie influences into something more ferocious. The standouts flagged so far take in the searing ‘Rewire’, the more vulnerable ‘Lost A Friend’ and the anthemic ‘Simple Life’, with lyrics circling loss, heartbreak and a generation’s frustration at forces beyond its control.
Corella have built serious momentum to this point, with backing from Radio 1, Radio X and BBC Introducing, more than seventy million streams since their debut album, a main stage slot at Reading and Leeds, and tours alongside Kaiser Chiefs, Pale Waves, Circa Waves and The Wombats.
