From the wreckage of Rum Lad and Rum Lads, Richie Tyler and James “Finny” Finlayson return as Dino Zoff with their debut full length, These Heads Are Broken, that are a bruised, bleeding and brutally honest account of breakdown, despair, and clawing your way through the rubble. It’s raw, it’s relentless, and it’s unflinchingly human.

The album opens with Taste Like Rain, a storm of self-destructive urges and storm-cloud imagery, setting the tone for an emotional downpour. How Does It Equate follows with its descent into solitude and haze, a half-confession, half-plea wrapped in grit. Always Always captures obsession and the hollow repetition of being stuck in someone else’s orbit, where every attempt feels like wasted time.

Buried is a dark meditation on beauty and futility, where even staring out the window can’t mask the gnawing fear of never getting it right. Sometimes slows into reflection with small changes cutting deepest, pain clinging like cold air. Honey Trap snarls with betrayal, wasted minds, and stolen feelings, one of the record’s angriest punches.

Head Fixer takes aim at modern numbness, television, scars, and quick fixes that never come. Change of Mind strips conflict bare, a relationship in a loop of declarations and reversals. Paranoia and fractured trust explode in Spies, where ’16 spies’ stalk like demons inside your own head.

Won’t Let Go aches with insomnia and unshakable voices, while Still the Same boils over into the album’s purest statement of frustration: an unvarnished list of things that can no longer be endured. Finally, Walk closes with existential fire; the last mile, judgement, and the big unanswered question of whether we’ve lived well enough.

It’s not an easy listen, nor should it be. Tyler writes with such searing honesty that the listener feels every scar, while Finny’s drumming drives each blow home with precision. Together they’ve built an album that thrives on catharsis, one that doesn’t just tell you how despair feels, it makes you live inside it. With These Heads Are Broken, Dino Zoff prove they’re more than a resurrection of old projects. This is a band reborn, sharpened by pain, and ready to make their mark.

These Heads Are Broken is due out on 5th September on their own Suffer In Silence Records.

Live photography courtesy of Gary Hough from Shot From Both Sides

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