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Milton Keynes-based pop-punk powerhouse Autumn Fires is set to ignite the scene with the announcement of their new EP, 'BLOOM.,' scheduled for release on February 25, 2026, via Marshall Records. Alongside the EP announcement, the band has dropped the lively new single and video, 'Fall For You.'

Autumn Fires’ journey to this highly anticipated release began with a significant victory: winning Kerrang! Radio’s ‘The Deal’ competition. This monumental win earned the band the chance to open the Fresh Blood stage at Download Festival 2025, a recording session at The Marshall Studio, and the opportunity to release their final work through Marshall Records.

"Winning The Deal has easily been the wildest and most exciting moment of our careers to date,” proudly shared vocalist Charlotte Haimes. “I know I speak for all of us in the band when I say we’re absolutely blown away by the love, support and generosity everyone involved has shown us! We barely slept the night before Download. We just chatted into the night about how excited we were, and when we saw how many people came to see us, it blew our minds.”

Following their electrifying Download performance, the quintet—comprising Charlotte Haimes (vocals), Callum Skea (guitar), Luca Testa (guitar), Neil Dowd (bass), and Daryl Humphries (drums)—stepped into The Marshall Studio. Here, they collaborated with Grammy and Mercury award-nominated producer-engineer Romesh Dodangoda (Bring Me The Horizon, Nova Twins, Funeral for a Friend) to craft a collection of vibrant, "festival-ready pop-punk/rock tracks."

“Working with Romesh and his team, along with Adam and Ollie (at Marshall’s studio) and the Marshall Records team, has been amazing,” Haimes added. “It was so refreshing to have the team understanding, adoring, and supporting our vision for the new record. Romesh is so instinctively talented with alternative music; he could visualise exactly what we wanted before we even said it.”

The new single, ‘Fall For You,’ is described as a "lively bubble-gum pop-punk love song; the kind of love that hits you unexpectedly like a sucker punch."

Haimes explained the deeply personal inspiration behind the track: “I’ve stayed away from writing happy love songs until now because I didn’t want to create something that felt cheesy or clichéd, or didn’t actually give my feelings. When I got engaged, I thought, ‘Okay, now it's time to write a song about how much this person means to me.’ It’s genuinely about the story of wanting to stay single, and then that amazing person appears in your life out of absolutely nowhere.”