Black Country, New Road share jubilant single ‘Besties’ and announce new album ‘Forever Howlong’ along with 2025 UK and European tour

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Black Country, New Road have shared their new single ‘Besties’ and confirmed their new album ‘Forever Howlong’.It comes after the band recently shared a short snippet for ‘Besties’ and teased the follow-up to ‘Ants From Up There’ using interactive billboards across London.The new album, which has been produced by James Ford, will be released on Ninja Tune on April 4 and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved here.

It will come in a variety of formats including a standard 2xLP on recycled black vinyl, a white label 2xLP signed by the band, an exclusive negative effect artworked 2xLP, a collector’s edition 2xLP with an alternate tracklisting in translucent eco jazz red and a collector’s edition cassette, also featuring the alternate tracklisting.‘Besties’, which you can listen to below, comes accompanied with a new video which will premiere at 5pm GMT followed by a live Q&A with the band.Speaking about the video, director Rianne White who previously worked with Young Fathers and Aurora, said: “‘Besties’ came into my world with a dance of feelings, with such an understood concept of exploring the core emotion of taking on the world, and its obstacles to be with her, the bestie, again.“Building this with the band took me to so many memories, informed by a collective of experiences from my childhood writing letters and maps to my bestie, into formulating our own map and sliding-doors effect narrative – charged with the instinctual punch and intuition of: ‘I need to be with my bestie now’.”White continued: “Working with Georgia [Ellery], May [Kershaw] and Tyler [Hyde] was a real treat across their performances especially, and quite literally, running from the more conventional lip-sync world, and injecting cameo moments with Charlie.