Mouth Culture: "Writing this felt like staring straight into a version of ourselves we don’t always want to admit exists."
Leicester trio Mouth Culture return with new single ‘Picking Wings Off a Butterfly’ — a raw, vulnerable anthem following a huge festival season and ahead of their headline UK tour.
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LEAH MARIN
9/19/20251 min read
After a summer spent whipping up moshpits from Reading & Leeds to Slam Dunk, Leicester’s finest chaos-dealers Mouth Culture are slowing things down (just a smidge) with their new single, ‘Picking Wings Off a Butterfly’. Spoiler: it’s not about bug cruelty, but about the messier, guilt-ridden side of being human.
Frontman Jack Voss describes it as staring into “that raw, tangled space where love, guilt, and self-awareness all blur together.” He explains that the track “is about the harm we sometimes cause without meaning to—how we push away the people we care about most while trying to figure ourselves out. Writing this felt like staring straight into a version of ourselves we don’t always want to admit exists. There’s frustration, regret, and fear threaded throughout, but also a deep, desperate love—the kind that makes living without someone feel unbearable. It’s messy, it’s honest, and it might be one of the most emotionally vulnerable tracks we’ve ever released. If you’ve ever sabotaged something good without knowing why, this one’s for you.”
Not that Mouth Culture are wallowing too long. Between cathartic lyric-spilling, they’ve spent the summer wrecking stages across the UK with You Me At Six and Hot Milk, and are now gearing up to take their own headline tour on the road next month.
‘Butterfly’ follows festival monster ‘Regret 101’ and the gloriously scathing ‘Ratbag’, all cooked up with Max Helyer of You Me At Six and longtime pal Jamie Ward on production duties. If this is just the appetiser, 2025 is about to be a banquet.
Listen to "Picking Wings Off a Butterfly":
