Naima Bock | Brighton
Naima Bock Brighton
Naima Bock plays St Luke’s Church near Queens Park on Saturday 17th April! Get tickets above or from Seetickets
“Exquisite […] a truly special listen” Clash
“A ray of optimism” The Guardian
“The fusion of her disparate cultural influences makes for an enchanting sound entirely Bock’s own” New York Times
‘Rocks’ is the new single from Naima Bock, released via Breakfast Records/Fire Talk. Her first music since the highly acclaimed Below A Massive Dark Land (2024) and standalone single Rolling (2025), it’s a close and intimate preview into the new material she’s been debuting across recent tours with Neil Young, Dinosaur Jr. and Jake Xerxes Fussell. These have seen her experimenting with stripped back two and three-piece setups, often rearranging the detailed arrangements and percussive flourishes that so often graced previous records, and embracing a more direct approach to songwriting.
Possessing an almost breathless urgency from the first second, ‘Rocks’ is the perfect introduction to this new direction. Led initially by finger-picked guitar and Naima’s unwaveringly resonant voice, it soon swells and surges, with the small additions of melodica, mouth trumpet and choral BVs bringing an almost ethereal intensity to its final moments. Yet, for all these shifts, ‘Rocks’ also never quite finds resolution, lingering on the listless feeling of being everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
As Naima states: Rocks is a very personal song, the story of which I’ll leave to the listener to interpret. It came to me on a rainy autumn night as my flight was ascending to somewhere less cold. I’d been listening to Palace Music non-stop for a month. Writing it saved me from my chronic oscillation between to-be home and not-to-be home, that is when I decided I would do both.
It’s these ambiguities, these hidden spaces that have long endeared audiences to Naima’s work, and led to an ever rising profile in both the UK and US. Her previous records Giant Palm (2022) and Below A Massive Dark Land (2024) received extensive praise, including glowing reviews from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Uncut and Mojo, as well as support from Lauren Laverne, Marc Riley, Gideon Coe on 6Music. Giant Palm and Below were also mainstays on KEXP, with Naima performing two sessions in 2023 and 2024, and she more recently played at the 6Music Festival in early 2026. https://www.naimabock.com/
Plus support
Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
13112026 – The Boo Radleys. Lewes Constitutional Club
19112026 – Gold Panda. ALPHABET
19112026 – Niall McNamee. Prince Albert
20112026 – Barbican Estate. Green Door Store
22112026 – mildred. Prince Albert
24112026 – Cheekface. Chalk
25112026 – Ozric Tentacles. Lewes Constitutional Club
26112026 – Chris Wood. Lewes Constitutional Club
27112026 – Dave McCabe (The Zutons). Lewes Constitutional Club
29112026 – Dylan LeBlanc. Alphabet
04122026 – Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip. Lewes Constitutional Club
05122026 – John Otway. Lewes Constitutional Club
10122026 – Triptych IX: CEANN CAPAILL. Hope & Ruin
11122026 – Triptych IX: My Precious Bunny. Hope & Ruin
12122026 – Triptych IX: Magda. Hope & Ruin
14012027 – Ovven. Hope & Ruin
23012027 – Mynolia. Folklore Rooms
06022027 – Jim Moray. Komedia Brighton
11022027 – These New South Whales. Prince Albert. Brighton
13022027 – Amelia Coburn. Komedia Brighton
13022027 – Seamus Fogarty. Green Door Store Brighton
19022027 – Wes Banderson. Komedia Brighton
23022027 – Mercy Girl. Green Door Store Brighton
24022027 – The Spook School. Hope & Ruin
11032027 – Anna Erhard. Chalk Brighton
13032027 – Rowena Wise. Prince Albert
14032027 – Shovel Dance Collective. Komedia Brighton
19032027 – HENGE. Chalk, Brighton
19032027 – Spencer Cullum, Erin Rae & Hollow Hand. Hope & Ruin
21032027 – Jeffrey Silverstein. Prince Albert
22032027 – Burglar. Hope & Ruin
03042027 – Jah Wobble. Lewes Constitutional Club
08042027 – Nightingales. Lewes Constitutional Club
23042027 – Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan. Lewes Constitutional Club
15042027 – Focus. Lewes Constitutional Club
21052027 – Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Lewes Constitutional Club
08062027 – Tropical Fuck Storm. Chalk
16062027 – Shonen Knife. Lewes Constitutional Club
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible, but please contact us ahead of time so we can arrange this as the entrance is around the side of the building. Once inside the venue is on a the flat. Venue is mostly seated on pews. Toilets are not gendered.
Naima Bock Brighton
Naima Bock Brighton