Robber Robber Are Tired, So Is Everyone — and “New Year’s Eve” Nails It

“Yes I know, gotta work for my pay. I’m tired, so is everyone — how can I complain?” Nina Cates delivers that couplet on “New Year’s Eve” with such easy, bone-tired swagger that it lands harder than any scream could. That’s Robber Robber’s whole thing — the Burlington quartet has a gift for making exhaustion sound cool, and their new album Two Wheels Move the Soul is full of it.

The record arrives this Friday on Fire Talk Records, and “New Year’s Eve” is its final advance single. It started as a jam between Nina Cates, Zack James, Will Krulak, and Carney Hemler — four people who clearly know how to get out of each other’s way — and ended up as one of the album’s most swaggering moments. The video, directed by Noah Lenker, leans into the band’s acid-soaked, tongue-in-cheek take on warped rock and does not disappoint.

Two Wheels Move the Soul was written and recorded across the winter of 2024 and 2025 — a rough stretch for Cates and James, who lost their longtime home and spent months couch-surfing through the Vermont cold. That upheaval didn’t slow the record down. If anything it sharpened it. Back at Little Jamaica Studios with engineer Benny Yurco, the band turned personal chaos into something that moves like an avalanche — post-punk scorchers, burnt-out slacker anthems, and just enough melody to sweeten the damage.

Robber Robber head out on a North American headline tour in May. Dates below.

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