Devil’s Cigarette move fast. Meet Me On The Floor Tonight, their latest album, lands with the same reckless charge that’s already made the Stockholm five-piece one of the most talked-about young rock bands in Sweden.

Formed in 2023, the group doesn’t ease into anything. Their sound pulls from the raw nerve of garage rock and the stomp of classic rock and roll, but it hits with a modern urgency, big hooks, sharp riffs, and a rhythm section that doesn’t let up. You hear the lineage, the Stooges, MC5, the Hellacopters, but it comes through the lens of a band still figuring things out in real time, which is exactly the appeal.

Meet Me On The Floor Tonight captures that momentum with more focus than their debut, tightening the chaos without sanding off the edges. Recorded by Otto Perrin and shaped further by Robert Pehrsson, the album leans into dynamics in a way that suggests the band is already thinking beyond sheer volume. There’s still plenty of it, but now it’s controlled, directed, and hitting harder because of it.

That progression traces back to I Wanna Be On TV, their first album, which introduced a band operating on instinct and attitude. Recorded at Sunlight Studios with Tomas Skogsberg, it carried a rough immediacy that hinted at bigger things ahead. It didn’t break wide, but it didn’t need to. Anyone paying attention could hear where this was headed.

Live, that trajectory becomes obvious. Devil’s Cigarette play like they’re trying to turn every room inside out, sweaty, loud, and locked in with the crowd. The line between band and audience disappears quickly, replaced by something closer to a shared release. It’s not polished, and that’s the point.

They’ve built their reputation quickly on instinct, volume, and a refusal to overthink it, an approach that’s carried them from local buzz to something with real momentum. Meet Me On The Floor Tonight makes one thing clear. This isn’t just about attitude anymore. The songs are catching up to the energy, and that’s usually when a band stops being a local story and starts reaching further out.