McLusky announce first album in 20 years and return with new single

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McLusky have announced their first studio album in 20 years, ‘The World Is Still Here And So Are We’. Listen to a new single below.In September 2023, the Cardiff post-hardcore band surprised fans by releasing their first material in almost two decades.

They returned with four songs at the time, and teased a full reunion record for 2024.The group then shared the “mindblowing” news that they were recording a new LP last summer, confirming that it would be released at some point in 2025 via indie label Ipecac. “McLusky were a band between 1999 and 2005 and now they are a band again,” they wrote.Now, the band have officially announced that their long-awaited fourth album will arrive on May 9.

Pre-order/pre-save it here.The 13-track record contains their 2023 singles ‘Unpopular Parts Of A Pig’ and ‘The Digger You Deep’, as well as the cuts ‘Cops And Coppers’, ‘The Competent Horse Thief’ and ‘Chekhov’s Guns’.McLusky have further previewed the forthcoming project with the new song ‘Way Of The Exploding Dickhead’ – which arrived as part of a two-track single, along with the previously released ‘…Pig’.In a statement, frontman Andrew Falkous explained: “With a title modelled on/ripped off a formative video game (The Way Of The Exploding Fist on the ZX Spectrum), and lyrics inspired by the huge excitement caused by the surge pricing on tickets to see a band play well in the distance, ‘Way Of The Exploding Dickhead’ is a modern parable, without the parable bit.”The single is accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek official music video, directed by by Remy Lamont.

Tune in above.A description of the upcoming ‘The World Is Still Here…’ reads: “It’s important to state that ‘The World Is Still Here And So Are We’ is the fourth McLusky album (no.