Joshua Scurfield just dropped a track that’ll slap the phone right out of your sweaty palm. The British self‑produced rock warrior is back with “Digital Poison” — and yeah, it’s out now, so quit scrolling and pay attention.
This ain’t a love song. This ain’t a party anthem. “Digital Poison” is a troubled reflection on everything that’s making us miserable right now. You know the feeling: staring at a rectangle for eight hours, arguing with strangers, feeling more alone than ever while being “connected.” Joshua Scurfield is pissed about the digital age — the isolation, the binary way it forces us to see the world as us vs. them, good vs. evil, like a damn computer switch.
He’s singing about misanthropy. About the self‑destructive nature of hiding behind screens until we forget how to be human. And honestly, it’s about damn time someone said it with this much fire.
Joshua Scurfield doesn’t write songs — he builds them. All alone. Produced and recorded entirely by himself. And you can hear every ounce of that lonely obsession in the mix.
He pulls from Bends‑era Radiohead (yeah, the good stuff), Slowdive’s dreamy misery, and those wide‑open post‑rock atmospheres that make you feel like you’re drowning in a beautiful void. Acoustic strings peek through like a cry for help. And the vocals are intimate — like he’s whispering this ugly truth right into your ear while staring at your search history.
This is Joshua Scurfield’s third release since he went solo at the start of this year. Third. And he’s already carving out a sound that’s rooted in alternative rock traditions but twisted with 2020s production tricks — the kind of stuff that captures a generation starving for real touch in a detached world.
“Digital Poison” isn’t comfortable. It’s not supposed to be. It’s a mirror held up to your screen‑fried face. And damn, it rocks.