Naima Bock – Rocks

Today, Naima Bock announces her signing to Fire Talk/Breakfast Records, announces a 2027 EU/UK Tour, and shares her new single/video, “Rocks.”

Bock’s first music since the highly acclaimed Below A Massive Dark Land (2024) and standalone single “Rolling” (2025), “Rocks” is 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 shows have seen Bock experimenting with stripped back, two-and-three-piece setups, rearranging the detailed compositions and percussive flourishes that graced her 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 Bock’s unwaveringly resonant voice, “Rocks” swells and surges with the addition of melodica, mouth trumpet, and choral background vocals 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.

“‘Rocks’ is a very personal song, the story of which I’ll leave to the listener to interpret,” Bock says. “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.”

The ambiguities of “Rocks” — these hidden spaces through Bock’s work at large — have endeared audiences to her 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.

Bock’s forthcoming EU/UK tour includes a slew of shows, including stops in Manchester, London, Berlin, Paris, Milan and more throughout the spring of 2027. A full list of tour dates are below, and tickets are on-sale for all shows beginning November 13th.

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