Kula Shaker are heading into a busy new year with the release of their latest single, ‘Lucky Number‘ — the final harbinger of their upcoming album Wormslayer, due January 30. The single lands as the band prepares to take the record on the road, with an extensive run of live shows across the UK and Europe.
‘Lucky Number’ opens Wormslayer with a swirling psych-rock stomp, pairing cosmic riffs with a glam-tinged drive, anchored by returning original member Jay Darlington’s signature Hammond organ flourishes. Crispian Mills’ vocals remain as enigmatic, playful, and spiritually inquisitive as ever. First performed live on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio, the track made an immediate impression.
Commenting on the track, Mills explains:
“There are two types of people in this world: those who read car number plates, and those who don’t. ‘Lucky Number’ is for all the beautiful car number plate readers. You don’t have to be ‘on the spectrum’ to appreciate nature’s miraculous patterns and certain numbers following you around. We’re not going crazy. The universe is speaking to us. God speed.”
The accompanying trippy, kaleidoscopic video mines footage from last year’s Inner Circle shows, which saw the band in a rare, up-close setting. Highlights include their intimate performance at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where Kula Shaker were honoured with a brick in the Cavern Wall of Fame — a nod to their perennial presence in the British guitar music scene.
Alongside recent singles ‘Be Merciful,’ ‘Good Money,’ ‘Charge of the Light Brigade,’ and ‘Broke as Folk’ — two of which featured in our top singles of 2025 — ‘Lucky Number’ points toward some of their best material captured on record to date. Early descriptions of the album’s deeper cuts suggest an even broader palette: pastoral folk on ‘Dust,’ gothic crooning on ‘Little Darling,’ with echoes of Roy Orbison and The Doors, and a title track apparently poised to unfurl into full mantra-metal flight. Mills has also revealed that ‘Broke as Folk’ forms part of a wider narrative thread running through Wormslayer — a mythic or moral spine yet to be fully disclosed.
The album is available to pre-order and pre-save HERE.
To mark the release, Kula Shaker will kick things off with the Wormslayer Busking Sessions — an acoustic in-store and signing tour beginning January 23 — before launching into a full UK and European headline run (remaining tickets are available HERE). Those shows will be accompanied by the immersive visuals of The Mad Alchemist Liquid Light Show. A recent KEXP session offers a snapshot of that energy, featuring classics ‘Tattva’ and ‘Govinda,’ the recent single ‘Good Money,’ and the previously unreleased track ‘Day For Night.’
January – In-Store Tour
23 – London, Banquet
24 – Brighton, Resident
26 – Southampton, Vinilo
27 – Oxford, Truck
28 – Bury, Wax & Beans
29 – Edinburgh, Assai
30 – Liverpool, Jacaranda
February
7 – Brighton, Concorde 2 (Sold Out)
8 – Cambridge, Junction (Sold Out)
9 – Holmfirth, Picturedrome (Sold Out)
11 – Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket
12 – Manchester, O2 Ritz
13 – London, Islington Assembly Hall (Sold Out)
22 – Nijmegen, Doornroosje
23 – Den Haag, Paard van Troje (Low Tickets)
25 – Cologne, Bürgerhaus Stollwerck
26 – Paris, Café de la Danse (Low Tickets)
28 – Hamburg, Gruenspan
March
2 – Berlin, Heimathafen Neukölln
3 – Munich, Technikum
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