Kent-based quintet Pool Club ride a wave of euphoric indie energy with their new single “Changing Tides,” released October 10, 2025. This anthem conveys emotional displacement in summery, feel-good pop tones. Their bright, infectious sound is a combination of ELO-style sophistication, Sam Fender’s emotional music, and Fountains of Wayne’s melodic charm. Emerging from Brighton’s rich music scene, frontmen Eliot and Kieron, joined by Seb, Will, and Jon, their music is tailor-made for open skies and sunset drives, yet grounded in real human vulnerability.
“Changing Tides” marks another confident step in Pool Club’s ascent. Built around steady, thumping drums and glistening guitar lines, the track flows like the sea it’s named after, calm on the surface but turbulent underneath. The opening bars shimmer with sun-drenched translucence, while the rhythm section holds the emotional weight steady. Over this sonic canvas, the singer’s husky voice comes intimate, raw, and restless. He sings with a tender frustration, wrestling with the illusion of being “alright” while admitting that beneath the calm, everything’s falling apart in the advent of a separation.
As the song swells toward its chorus, he sings that “There’s no point changing tides” because he’s so habituated by their presence that now he would be lost without them. The music mirrors that conflict of the inability to let go.
With “Changing Tides,” Pool Club comes like storytellers of the aftermath of a summer, when the laughter fades, the night settles, and the heart still searches for shore.
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Review by: Naomi Joan