TRACK REVIEW: Mourning by Spiritbox

After the scorching 2025 album Tsunami Sea, listeners were wriggling in their seats waiting for when Spiritbox would start their next chapter. As of last week, we have finally been rewarded with brand new track, Mourning.

Now this song swaps Spiritbox’s trademark whiplash heaviness and fierce growls with a more subdued, atmospheric palette. Courtney LaPlante’s clean vocals sit front and centre, floating over ambient pads and guitar textures that swell and recede like a natural breath, positioning the band into a new creative space. La Plante’s delivery is measured and intimate, carrying an emotional gravity, while the instrumentals allow negative space to become part of the composition.

This track feels more cinematic, which weighs up perfectly with the music video that was also provided. Starting briefly in their currently standard black and white, Courtney quickly grabs her microphone before the scene quick changes into colour (Spiritbox back in colour? WOW)!

A mixture of neutral landscapes flick through alongside the start of the track. I love how it’s not overpowering at all, still lets the song take charge.

The lyrics in this track are like any other Spiritbox track, reflective and ethereally written. It feels to me like the lyrics are about the concept of sitting in a space between painful loss and eventual acceptance. Letting go means losing the person, but keeping hold only hurts more.

Mourning affirms the bands ability to evolve without losing the intensity that defines them. This single stands as perhaps one of Spritbox’s most devastating releases; emotionally heavy and cathartic as f*ck.

Review by Neve Saltmarsh