The award-winning duo release their 16th album – a new album, with a brand new sound.
By Tracy Mukherjee
A music article. Not my usual area of expertise. At Westender Magazine, we leave the music reviews to a talented young fella named Greg Kane. But apparently our Greg has been a little busy getting the band back together.
Oh, wait. Ahhhh!
Yes Greg Kane, along with band mate (and brother) Pat Kane happens to be THAT Greg Kane. Hue and Cry Greg Kane. Hue and Cry who have just released a fantastic new album. One that will give old 80s codgers like me a bit of a surprise. But in a really good way.
It was acceptable in the 80s
Bursting onto the UK music scene with their 1987 debut album, Seduced and Abandoned, the brothers quickly became firm favourites with the single ‘Labour of Love’. Blending pop, soul, jazz, and socially aware lyrics, they quickly earned them a loyal following.
Further singles such as Looking for Linda, Sweet Invisibility and Ordinary Angel followed. The band’s following has meant that almost 40 years later, the launch of a new album is highly anticipated. And it’s a bit of a departure for Pat and Greg.
‘Everybody’ sees the boys experiment with a more synth/electronica sound. Greg notes that the influences for the album include David Bowie, Simple Minds and The Human League. The resulting album is a heady mix of electropop, futuristic disco and melodic Latin House. However, Pat’s distinctive vocals, Greg’s imaginative sound and the brothers’ incredible talent for songwriting are still front and centre.
New Direction, Same Great Talent
Greg says of Everybody, ‘I’m so, so proud of the work Pat and I did on this record. We went to places we’d never been before, and it seems we still have our sense of adventure, which I guess is down to a deep love of music and being creative.‘
Taking two years of experimenting with different sounds, Everybody was released to critical acclaim on 29th May 2026. Electronica it may be, but at it’s heart the 10 songs have a central theme.
Pat says ‘It turns out that Everybody is a love album — but that can mean love of justice, love of tech, love of the future, as much as of our beloveds‘. Continuing, Pat says ‘It’s also a future-facing record, grappling with how we can thrive rather than merely survive and the brothers Kane couldn’t be prouder of what they’re made in Everybody; it’s a record I’ve been dreaming of making ever since I was a wee post-punk teenager in the early 80s.‘
Forty years later, the brothers are still making incredible music, are still in love with lyrics, unafraid of trying something new, but unequivocally still Hue and Cry.
Just like Glasgow itself, they remain smart, funny, a wee bit sentimental, and always able to tell a great story. Long may they reign.
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