If you have been on Instagram Reels or TikTok recently you may have stumbled across Greywind, the emo duo from Ireland. On January 16th, Steph and Paul O’Sullivan are set to release their second album, ‘Severed Heart City,’ nine years after the release of their debut album. Throughout 2025, they did a handful of shows, including appearances at Slam Dunk Festival, as well as releasing multiple singles.

Listening to Greywind always feels nostalgic to me. Steph has the perfect voice for the alternative pop-punk sound the duo pulls off in all their songs. Even their 2024 EP  ‘Antidote’ sounds like it was pulled out of the 2000s, a sound they continue to lean into in 2026.

Without a doubt, these guys have faced some challenges in their time releasing music. This to me is what makes their releases exciting. They keep going even when obstacles get in their way. Even after having the release date of the album pushed from September to January, they didn’t stop promoting it and they managed to maintain the hype.

The first taste we got of Severed Heart City last year was ‘Acid Rain,’ a hard-hitting track about “navigating toxic relationships and difficult situations.” A heavy topic to open the album, but they manage to capture every emotion. The verses are delivered in a spoken tone that builds into a chorus that was written for a live show mic to crowd moment.

This is a ten-track album, with seven tracks released prior. ‘Happy’ is one of the three unreleased.  Although it sounds upbeat on the surface, it also leans into something more emotional with its lyrics, featuring a layered vocal moment that is a highlight of the whole record. This is followed by ‘Waterfall,’ which explores “hopelessly wanting someone to love you but getting nothing in return and waking up to the fact that they couldn’t care less about you.”

I must mention some of the lyrics in the chorus here in relation to the themes of the song, ‘I’m romanticising a ghost, I saw a figment of you by the coast.’ These are presented in a way that feels like you’re reading a diary. It’s a very polished track that feels like it should be better known that it is, highlighting how talented this duo is, with a small guitar solo by Paul that he effortlessly flows into.

As I mentioned at the start, you may already be familiar with some of these songs from social media. ‘Swerve’ and ‘Make Believe’ may just be two of the ones you recognise. I have had these stuck in my head for a while and I’m not complaining. ‘Swerve’ was one of my favourite tracks of 2025 purely because of how catchy it is.

‘Let’s See If You Can Float’ is another unreleased moment. Right from the jump, I’m getting heavy Pierce The Veil vibes with the fast, dance introduction. The bridge is where we see some raw emotion from Steph that progresses into a breakdown that made me drop everything when listening to it for the first time.

The closing track is one that they also didn’t release. I was expecting it to be a slower moment, but we seem to have gotten that with ‘Moon’ instead. After listening to ‘Cope In The Coma,’ it makes sense as to why this is the track to lead us out of the album. It feels like a compilation of what Severed Heart City is. The repetition of ‘Coping through hope in a coma’ is a reassurance that there’s something to cling on to, even when times are tough.

Severed Heart City is such an easy listen, it’s a much more matured version of Greywind in a way that it has their iconic sound but sounds even more polished. I like the fact all the tracks aren’t too long, it’s an album you can listen to front to back and not feel the need to listen to something else halfway through. If you like pop-punk, emo or just anything nostalgic, I highly recommend this is the next album you listen to.

Greywind: Severed Heart City – 16 January 2026 (FLG)

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