Congratulations

Enthusiastically embracing disparate influences, Congratulations make noisy experimental pop that's funky, doomy, and playfully arty at once. After releasing their first song, "Lucy, Lucy," in 2022, the U.K. quartet increasingly layered up their extroverted songs across early EPs, culminating in their 2026 debut album, Join Hands. Formed in Brighton, England, in the early 2020s, Congratulations were established by lead singer Leah Stanhope, guitarist Jamie Chellar, bassist Greg Burns, and drummer James Gillingham, whose influences ranged from neon-colored 1980s pop and moody ...