Mansfield - Too Much To Handle

Image Credit: Jesper Ludvigsen

Danish outfit are back with their new single ‘Too Much To Handle’ on Friday, 20th February. Recorded at Black Tornado Studio in Copenhagen, it was produced by Morten Bue and will be released via DME Records.

In 2024, Mansfield came of age on their second record, ‘For All The Right Reasons’. It was an album of fine melody and great storytelling, and here, they have picked up where they left off. Mathias Havelund’s guitars adopt the pop precision of Lightning Seeds but with an added darkness. That darkness, being life distractions, the fog and mire of everyday life, eating away at the most valuable commodity you can never fully possess in middle age, time.

Frontman Christian Sage’s vocals sit somewhere between Broudie’s bubble-gum optimism and the dramatic realism of Jake Shillingford of My Life Story. The bright hopes and dreams of pop are grounded by the weight of adult reality, creating a tension that gives ‘Too Much To Handle’ its emotional pull.

On February 27th, Mansfield will open for UK cult heroes All The Young and, on this showing, are not to be missed.