The Xcerts have returned with ‘Do It To Myself’, the first song to be released on new record label FLG Records. A huge favourite and very important band for us (the centre table at our wedding was named after their seminal ‘There Is Only You’ album, after all), this song finds the band going back to their roots with riffs and raw honesty at its heart.

Murray Macleod says: “There’s a desperate urgency about this song. It’s an admission of my fragility and tendency to self-sabotage when things aren’t good as they are. It’s a hard indie rock song, but the lyrics and vocal delivery are really vulnerable. That conflicting feeling was intentional – we wanted it to feel uncomfortable, honest, and human.”

With a touch of Rival Schools in its opening scuzzy hooks alongside those melodic sensibilities The Xcerts have always excelled in, it’s an anthemic piece with plenty of sing-along moments – the repeats of ‘I do it, I do it, do it to myself’ – and a sense of isolation running through: ‘I’m told it’s good to feel alive’ and ‘Will it always be like this?’ just two of Murray’s pointed observations.

The song was written collaboratively in the same room and this infectious energy swirls through its 3 and a half minutes.