The End

Due to having too much to do these days, and having very little free time to update this blog, it's time for it to end - thanks to anyone who followed it over these few years, I've enjoyed writing every single update on albums I could ever find, but all good things must come to an end. Cheers...

New Enter Shikari Single Premieres Tomorrow

The new Enter Shikari one-off single, Rat Race, gets its premiere tomorrow (October 31st) at 7.30 (GMT) on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show. The video for it should follow later that night. The single is the third and final stand-alone single for the band in 2013, and will be released fully on November 4th.

Elbow Name Sixth Album

Elbow have titled their sixth album "Carry Her Carry Me". The album is due out in March 2014, and may feature songs such as Charge, This Blue World, My Sad Captains, All At Once and New York Morning. The album is their first since 2011's Build A Rocket Boys!

Arcade Fire Reveal New Track

Arcade Fire have revealed another new song from their upcoming album Reflektor - the penultimate track, Afterlife. If you're in the UK, you can have a listen here. The album is out 28th October.

Enter Shikari Announce Last One-Off Single

Enter Shikari have announced that the third of their three one-off 2013 singles (following The Paddington Frisk in April, and Radiate in June) will be called Rat Race, and will be released on November 4th. The song will be premiered within the next couple of weeks.

Keane Split

Reports have surfaced that Keane will split after the release of their greatest hits album in November. The band have cited the reason being that they want to work on their solo projects. They released four albums (and a mini-album) - Hopes And Fears (2004), Under The Iron Sea (2006), Perfect Symmetry (2008), Night Train (the mini album, 2010), and (in my opinion) their masterpiece, Strangeland (2012).

New One Night Only Album Details?

Well, since there's been nothing that resembles news for several weeks, why not a little bit of speculation? Rumours are that One Night Only's third album is called Where The Sleepless Go, and this is the tracklist:

    I'm The Sun
    When You Call
    Can't Cure My Appetite
    Plasticine
    TV
    Got Its Charms
    Erase
    Wolves
    Luck That Keeps You Guessing
    Get Around To It
    Tranquilise
    Talk You Down
    Paper Trail

Other things to note:
- No sign of Games, a song that was supposed to be released earlier this year but never turned up (but sounded incredible live - so it would be disappointing if it never surfaced!)
- Other songs that were indicated to be on the new album were called The Bittersweet, Ties We're Bound To and Night On Earth; these were taken from the same source - although Can't Cure My Appetite was also on this early list - so maybe (if this is true) the other songs got renamed... or there are a lot of B-sides out there!
- 13 songs seems like it might be a bit too much, but it's not like no one ever released a 13 track album before.
- The album is supposed to be less of the straightforward but epic pop of the last album, and more experimental... but time will tell.
- The album is slated for release in March/April 2014.

The Twang Reveal New Song

The Twang have unveiled a new song, titled The Wobble, taken from their upcoming fourth album, due out in 2014. Have a listen here.

Elbow To Release New Album

Elbow have announced that their sixth album will be released on March 10th next year. The album is currently being recorded, and no details are yet known, apart from the name of some potential songs - Charge, This Blue World, My Sad Captains and New York Morning - and a working title (All At Once).

Arcade Fire Post Short Film

Arcade Fire have posted a 20-minute video directed by Roman Coppola, featuring three new songs (Here Comes The Night Time, We Exist, and Normal Person) and celebrities including James Franco and Michael Cera! Have a look:

The Killers Release New Single

The Killers have released a new single, Shot At The Night, to announce the release of their greatest hits collection, titled Direct Hits, due out on November 11th. The album will include 13 singles, along with this new one and Just Another Girl, another new song.

Keane Releasing New Single

Keane will be releasing a new single, Higher Than The Sun, to accompany their new greatest hits collection. The song will get its premiere on Radio 2 on Friday morning. The greatest hits collection will be released on November 12th, and will include another new song, Won't Be Broken, in addition to the new single.

The Wombats To Release New Single

The Wombats will be releasing a new single, Your Body Is A Weapon, on October 2nd. The single is the first taken from their third album, due out in 2014. No other details are known about it yet.

Mumm-Ra Reveal Another New Song

Mumm-Ra have uploaded another new song to their Soundcloud account, following Technicolor earlier this year (and its B-sides, Your Father's Son and Ho Hey!) - this one's called Jeremy, and click here to listen. Their long-awaited second album is still in the works.

Embrace To Announce Sixth Album?

Embrace have tweeted that they might be finally unveiling their sixth album this week. The album has been 7 years in the making, since 2006's This New Day. Not much is known, other than two titles - I Run and Self Attack Mechanism. Now we'll just have to wait and see...

The Sunshine Underground Preparing New Album

The Sunshine Underground have announced that they are working on their third album, which is currently untitled. You can pre-order the album if you pledge £8 on the band's PledgeMusic page - click here. The album will be released in early 2014, and will have more of an electronic influence than the band's 2010 album Nobody's Coming To Save You (which was an absolute epic). Track titles include It Is Only You (released as a single earlier this year), Add Up To Nothing (the B-side on said single), The Same Old Ghosts, Take Me Out Of Time (released as demos last year), Finally We Arrive, Nothing To Fear, Turn It On, Nightrider, and Here Comes The Storm.

The Hoosiers To Release New Album

The Hoosiers have announced that their new album, The News From Nowhere, will be released 3rd March 2014 (a whole six months away... but oh well!) - if you pre-order the album now, you'll get a free download of a new song, Somewhere In The Distance, which you can hear below.

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Artwork

Tracklist
01. Reflektor
02. We Exist
03. Flashbulb Eyes
04. Here Comes The Night Time
05. Normal Person
06. You Already Know
07. Joan Of Arc
08. Here Comes The Night Time II
09. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)
10. It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
11. Porno
12. Afterlife
13. Supersymmetry

The album will be released on October 28th in the UK. It is a double album, split between tracks 7 and 8 - the tracks are reported to be quite long!

The artwork is a statue of Eurydice and Orpheus, who are both mentioned in tracks 9 and 10 respectively.

The first single is Reflektor, available on YouTube now.

Blog Update: Technical Difficulties

Due to technical difficulties on my end, I was unable to update the blog for the past couple of weeks (bar one day in an internet café); but it's all fixed now, normal service should be resumed - a spate of catch up posts are coming!

Hear MGMT Now

You can now hear MGMT's new album in full, if you are signed up for Rdio. Click here to hear it, along with a visual experience called the Optimizer. The album is due out a week today; 16th September.