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Anxious Return With Explosive Single ‘Don’t Move’
Anxious have released ‘Don’t Move’, their first new music since their 2025 album ‘Bambi’, signalling the start of a new phase for the band. The alternative rock track combines melodic hooks with hardcore and emo elements, and is presented as particularly suited to live performance.
Vocalist Grady Allen said the song reflects on a relationship from his early twenties that collapsed and could not be rebuilt, including attempts to avoid accepting that loss. He began writing it late last summer without a planned album in mind, citing Jimmy Eat World’s ‘Clarity’ and Australian band Armlock as influences; Anxious will tour North America with Citizen from 18 August to 3 October.
In short
- Anxious release first post-‘Bambi’ single, ‘Don’t Move’.
- The song explores a failed attempt to restore a past relationship.
- North American tour with Citizen begins on 18 August.
Explained simply
Anxious are an American rock band whose music draws on alternative rock, hardcore and emo, styles that range from melodic guitar songs to heavier, more intense sounds. Their album Bambi came out in 2025.
The band’s vocalist, Grady Allen, says the new song grew from a relationship in his early twenties that ended and could not be restored. Anxious are also due to tour North America with fellow band Citizen from 18 August to 3 October, giving the song a place in the band’s next live shows.