SANSOM strikes gold with alt-rock anthem 'Golden'

With his latest single 'Golden', Brighton’s SANSOM has bottled the frustration of a soul-crushing day job and detonated it into a blistering alt-rock anthem. It’s a song that wears its defiance proudly, transforming suffocation into sound, with the kind of energy that begs to be shouted back from the crowd.

From the first crash of drums, the track crackles with urgency. Caleb Tamplin’s percussion and Travis Powers’ bass lock into a pulse that feels both tight and restless, while Alex Gordon’s production keeps all the edges raw, capturing the electricity of a band in a room rather than a studio polish job. The chorus is built to lodge itself in your head, sharp and relentless, a hook that turns personal frustration into collective release.

What makes 'Golden' stand out is its balance between grit and immediacy. It nods to the swagger of SANSOM’s influences like Queens Of The Stone Age and Foo Fighters, yet sidesteps imitation by leaning into a more personal urgency. You can hear the weight of fluorescent-lit days and spreadsheet monotony pushed out through every riff and every shouted refrain.

SANSOM has crafted a reclamation of the self through sound here. It’s a rallying cry for anyone who’s ever stared at a clock on the wall, waiting for their real life to begin.