CLUNK Recommends | MORN – The Standard Model

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MORN’s latest track is apocalyptic, hyper and breathless. ‘The Standard Model’ will propel listeners just as much as the band.

Propelled by the release their debut single in 2025, ‘Modern Man’, Welsh four-piece MORN have gone on to play festivals around the UK, such as End Of The Road and Live At Leeds.

Now MORN are back with their first release of 2026, ‘The Standard Model’. This track grabs you immediately with its uniquely apocalyptic and darting guitar riff. It’s a hyper and near-breathless beginning, intent on whirling the listener around.

By the time the vocals come in, against Noah Ryder’s snapping snare, the listener has just about managed to strap themselves in. Staccato, pointed and guttural, the vocals take ‘The Standard Model’ to new heights with concise lyrics and sounds shared between Oliver and Robert Riba and Mae Ryder. For me, this is where this track really shines, between punky, IDLES-esque, repetitions like  ‘…and everybody’s just fucking and fucking and fucking about’ and hooky, light-hearted ‘la,la,la,la,la’s’ that give the track a touch of unhinged cheeriness. In short, art rock at its finest!

Vocalist and guitarist Robert Riba comments on the single: “‘The Standard Model’ has been with us since the birth of our band. It gives unrelenting guitar madness with abrasive vocals — a commentary on a widely hated character who, at the peak of the track, turns to dust. Perhaps running away, disappearing without a trace, never held accountable. Although it hits hard, it’s our least serious, most purely fun and ecstatic song. We built it by stitching two catchy riffs together, and our live performance really grew around it. Both tracks were captured live in Dan Carey’s studio in Streatham, the energy bouncing off the walls of this small room with all of us crammed inside.”

Listen to ‘The Standard Model‘ here:

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Catch MORN at the following:

14-15 May – The Great Escape, Brighton, UK
20 May – Paper Dress Vintage, London, UK
23 May – Dot 2 Dot Festival, Bristol, UK
24 May – Dot 2 Dot Festival, Nottingham, UK
27 June – Circuit Break Festival, Northampton, UK
11 July – The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham ^
12 July – The Caves, Edinburgh ^
13 July – Gorilla, Manchester ^

^ = supporting Militarie Gun

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