Jim Bob will release two brand-new studio albums on the same day — Friday 22nd August 2025 via Cherry Red Records. To launch the albums Jim Bob and co will be playing Stick in full at Banquet Records in Kingston (Friday 22nd) and Automatic in full at Rough Trade East (Saturday 23rd).
Fresh from a triumphant, sold-out show at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Jim Bob (Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Jamie Wednesday) returns with his 13th and 14th solo albums: the big, bold Automatic and the dirty, punked-up Stick. Let’s be clear — This is not a double album, but 11 tracks per album, and apparently “every single one worthy of your ears”.
A full-band statement, Automatic features the trusted crew from Jim Bob’s last three chart-busting albums — Pop Up Jim Bob, Who Do We Hate Today and Thanks For Reaching Out (also on Cherry Red). From the opening sing-along ‘Victoria Knits The Wars’ — featured on the first 7” single — the album bursts with melody, wit and soul. Big songs. Big hooks. Big heart.
Lean, loud and loaded, Stick is the punkier sibling — a dirty, power-trio guitar record with its amps cranked and its tongue still firmly in cheek. It’s scrappy in all the right ways. It includes the punk-pop gem ‘Every Day’s a Discotheque’, whose S side appears on the aforementioned 7” release. If Automatic is the celebration, Stick is the mosh pit.
Jim Bob said, “Automatic and Stick are both the greatest album I’ve ever made.”
