Gallus make their return with Life is Bliss.

If we’d run an EP of the Year award at the end of our first twelve months, it would gave gone to Gallus without a second thought. 2025’s Cool To Drive was five tracks of raw, riotous nerve where every single track could have been the lead single. Gallus don’t do filler. Now the Glasgow outfit are back with their second full-length Life Is Bliss, landing 25th September via Marshall Records.

Gallus started in a Glasgow pub when cousins Paul and Eamon Ewins, freshly out of university and short on a plan, needed a frontman after their previous project fizzled out. Their school friend Barry Dolan had pretty much no musical background, but had been seen commanding the room in a college play, and that charisma turned out to be the driving engine of the band.

In 2022 they won Best Rock/Alternative at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards, paving the way for their debut album We Don’t Like The People We’ve Become in June 2023. Recorded at Marshall’s own studio in Milton Keynes, the album was considerably rowdier than that of their art school contemporaries, full of pub closing time chaos. Earlier this year, the band also recorded an unhinged cover of Proclaimers classic Letter From America ahead of Scotland’s appearance in the World Cup, and they were invited to watch the squad train whilst blasting out their anthem.

We caught up with the band ahead of the release of their new album Life Is Bliss:

Between your first album, Cool To Drive, and your singles you span a lot of genres and keep us on our toes! What can we expect from the music on Life Is Bliss?

Can you take us through the subject matter on the new album?

There’s a big difference in tone between the album titles ‘We Don’t Like The People We’ve Become’ and ‘Life Is Bliss’. Has something shifted in the band in the past 3 years?

Say I move to Glasgow tomorrow, what venues do I need to visit and which bands do I need to see?

The shows in Scotland look especially rowdy. What can London learn from Scotland, and how can we be a better audience?

You said previously you wanted to go on a “big fucking plane”. Has your time playing round Europe fulfilled that goal, or do you want to go on a bigger fucking plane?

Tell us about some of your favourite bands you’ve played with, either who you’ve warmed up for, or who’ve warmed up for you?

What are some of your non-musical inspirations?

Who would you most like to collaborate with, living or dead?

What is the ultimate goal of Gallus?