Sydney’s smallways. today unleash their new single ‘SPLIT’, taken from their forthcoming debut EP Mind Your Head — and it’s a belter. Even better, this band is LOUD WOMEN family: frontwoman Tez is the co-organiser of December 2025’s LOUD WOMEN Fest Sydney, proving she’s just as committed to building feminist punk community as she is to shredding it onstage.
‘SPLIT’ is jagged, witty and wired with nervy DIY electricity. A track about exclusion, misunderstanding and isolation, it somehow manages to be as funny as it is unsettling. The video (directed by the band with Liam Black of A WACK. Productions) leans straight into that tension: moody shadows cut with absurd silliness, eerie close-ups colliding with daft pratfalls. It’s your brain on a bad day, but with a killer soundtrack.
The forthcoming Mind Your Head EP promises themes of alienation, mental health and self-delusion — but don’t mistake that for doom and gloom. If ‘SPLIT’ is the yardstick, smallways. have nailed the art of stitching sharp songwriting and chaotic punk energy into something that feels urgent, human, and oddly uplifting.
This is outsider DIY music at its most compelling. Funny, unsettling, and very much needed. We’re here for it.