Freshly signed to Fiction Records (home to The Cure and St Vincent), London five-piece Man/Woman/Chainsaw hum with the sort of energy that’s clearly been honed on the stage. Formed by friends Billy Ward and Vera Leppänen at age sixteen, they still carry that teenage electricity - not naive, but gloriously unfiltered.
Fusing taut, grungy guitars with violin, synths and multi-vocals, their sound is somewhere between the scrappy edge of early Sleater-Kinney and the architecture of modern UK indie.
New single ‘Only Girl’ is an ardent, strings-laced love song that started as a grunge track and mutated into something big-hearted, boisterous and euphoric. Not many bands can make violins and teenage appetite sound like they belong in the same sentence, but this lot seem to thrive in contradiction.
With Eurosonic 2026, more headline dates and a debut album set for next year, momentum for Man/Woman/Chainsaw is not just building, it’s rattling.
🎧 Listen to ‘Only Girl’ below