“Exquisite \[…\] a truly special listen” - Clash

“A ray of optimism” - The Guardian

“The fusion of her disparate cultural influences makes for an enchanting sound entirely Bock’s own” - New York Times

‘Rocks’ is the new single from Naima Bock, to be released on the 11th November via Breakfast Records/Fire Talk. Her first music since the highly acclaimed Below A Massive Dark Land (2024) and standalone single Rolling (2025), it's a close and intimate preview into the new material she’s been debuting across recent tours with Neil Young, Dinosaur Jr. and Jake Xerxes Fussell. These have seen her experimenting with stripped back two and three-piece setups, often rearranging the detailed arrangements and percussive flourishes that so often graced previous records, and embracing a more direct approach to songwriting.

Possessing an almost breathless urgency from the first second, ‘Rocks’ is the perfect introduction to this new direction. Led initially by finger-picked guitar and Naima’s unwaveringly resonant voice, it soon swells and surges, with the small additions of melodica, mouth trumpet and choral BVs bringing an almost ethereal intensity to its final moments. Yet, for all these shifts, ‘Rocks’ also never quite finds resolution, lingering on the listless feeling of being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. As Naima states:

Rocks is a very personal song, the story of which I’ll leave to the listener to interpret. It came to me on a rainy autumn night as my flight was ascending to somewhere less cold. I’d been listening to Palace Music non-stop for a month. Writing it saved me from my chronic oscillation between to-be home and not-to-be home, that is when I decided I would do both.

It’s these ambiguities, these hidden spaces that have long endeared audiences to Naima’s work, and led to an ever rising profile in both the UK and US. Her previous records Giant Palm (2022) and Below A Massive Dark Land (2024) received extensive praise, including glowing reviews fr

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