Lonnie Gunn announces debut EP ‘2013 horsemeat scandal’ releasing August 6th

Lonnie Gunn today announces her highly-anticipated debut EP 2013 horsemeat scandal, releasing independently on August 6th. It comes accompanied by new single ‘Babytooth’, the latest taste of her irresistible world.

Written over the course of a year, the EP marks Lonnie’s first full release and finds her exploring themes of impermanence, anxiety and grief across its 7 tracks. She shares, “Over the course of the year I spent writing this EP, I was holding onto everything and everyone around me so tightly, as if any moment would be our last moment together. I always feel as though I’m in constant flux between nostalgia and grief, not only over the past, but also the present.“ It’s a deeply personal and confident debut, from a captivating artist who has so much more to share.

‘Babytooth’ tracks the feeling of “becoming so dependent on someone’s validation and adoration that you regress around them and lose your sense of self”, Lonnie shares. The line ”Babytooth tied to the door, knock it loose” represents forcing an inevitable rupture – “having to rip yourselves away from each other even though you’re not ready, in the hope that you can both grow into better versions of yourselves.”

Written with collaborator Oscar Lang, the track finds Lonnie leaning into a more pop-rock sound than previous singles. Inspired by the use of vocal chops and glitches by artists like Mitski, Caroline Polachek and Evil Adeline; the bones of it came together organically in just 4 hours, before the pair began experimenting with the otherworldly effects that make the track stand out.

Elaborating further, Lonnie shares: “The song, named after my favourite stuffed toy lamb, was born on reflection of a deeply enmeshed relationship – the idea of life without one another feels impossible: you’re a little kid abandoned, desperately waiting for someone to come back to you.”

It’s the latest offering in an impressive run of singles, including ‘Good Girls Go To Heaven’and ‘Photocopy’ which will both feature on the upcoming EP. Alongside its announcement, Lonnie also shares details of a release party at The Rossi Bar in Brighton on August 7th, tickets available HERE. You can catch her live in London at The Shacklewell Armson July 15th, tickets HERE and full tour itinerary below.

Gunn has steadily cultivated a devoted and growing fanbase, drawn to her unfiltered honesty and cathartic live performances which she showcased during a recent support run for TTSSFU and a bucket-list moment opening for Kim Gordon at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 14th April.

Previous releases ‘Dog In A Hot Car’, ‘Lucky Girl’ and ‘lovebite’ each encapsulated a unique blend of what Gunn describes as “bubblegum grunge” – a fitting shorthand for music that fuses sugar-rush melodies with distortion, grit, and emotional volatility. Throughout these early tracks Gunn has steadily expanded her sonic palette, pushing past early expectations of softness into something louder, heavier and more self-assured. Her influences trace a lineage of uncompromising women and off-kilter icons – from Fiona Apple, Karen O andMitski, alongside the scrappy textures of bands like Deerhunter, The Moldy Peaches and Elastica.

Born in the US and now based in Brighton, Lonnie is an artist carving out a world of her own – one that sits somewhere between saccharine and sordid, playful and unflinchingly raw. Raised in what she describes as a “static and boring” pocket of suburban New Jersey, music was a lifeline. Her father, a former new wave club DJ, and her sister – now in a Leeds-based noise rock band Skintern – helped shape a household where obsession and expression went hand in hand. As a self-professed “chubby emo kid”, Gunn found early refuge in music, singing constantly as a child, often improvising melodies before she had the words to match them.

By her teens, she was fronting an indie rock band, writing prolifically and even scoring short films with online collaborators. But it wasn’t until years later – following a period of personal upheaval spanning late 2024 into 2025 – that music shifted from something she did to something she needed. As her world fractured, songwriting became the one constant: a means of survival as much as self-expression.

Visually and conceptually, Lonnie Gunn exists in a world of “fuzzy static heaven” – something beautiful but slightly uncanny, where femininity, the body and surreal discomfort intertwine. It’s a space that mirrors her music: intimate yet abrasive, tender yet grotesque.

Still early in her journey, Gunn sees this moment not as a reinvention but a threshold. As she puts it, “I’m not a newborn baby, but it is my first day of school.”

2026 Live Dates

July 15th – EYOE Recommends @ The Shacklewell Arms – London (free entry)
August 7th – The Rossi Bar – Brighton (EP release party)
September 4th – Brighton Psych Fest – Brighton
September 12th – Escape to the City – St. Albans

2013 horsemeat scandal 

1. I Miss Everything
2. Photocopy
3. Babytooth
4. Pink Butterfly Wing
5. Taxidermy Swan
6. Good Girls Go to Heaven
7. glow in the dark star