Mystery Jets’ Jack Flanagan announces debut album, releases ‘Skyhorse X Skyhorse’

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Mystery Jets’ bassist and vocalist Jack Flanagan has revealed details of his solo project, with an album to come later this year – listen to new song ‘Skyhorse X Skyhorse’ below.‘Jack Rides The Sky’ is out June 10 and sees Flanagan pull together songs and ideas created over the past ten years.The announcement comes alongside the psychedelic ‘Skyhorse X Skyhorse’, which grows from dreamy to intense.“Skyhorse x Skyhorse was born in a shed in somebody else’s back garden in north London,” explained Flanagan. “It began as 8 different songs and after half a year of experimentation it eventually became one.

I wanted to try and construct a song that took you to as many different places as possible within three minutes. I think it does.”Listen to ‘Skyhorse X Skyhorse’ below: ‘Jack Rides The Sky’ is being released by Modern Sky and the the track list for the album is as follows:‘Curses’‘Skyhorse X Skyhorse’‘Gravy Train’‘Unbelievable’‘Don’t Ask Me Why’‘Something Has Changed’‘Misty’‘Lately’‘Blue Canoe’‘Girls and Boys’‘Try’‘Why Am I Only Here’A post shared by Jack Flanagan (@jackridestheskyhorse)Mystery Jets released their sixth studio album ‘A Billion Heartbeats’ in 2020. “With protest songs and celebrations of the NHS all part of their new identity, it’s a wildly successful take on the world at large as the band enter a new decade,” NME wrote of the album in a four-star review.

Mystery Jets also shared covers album ‘Home Protests’ in 2020.Explaining how they recorded the album in lockdown, the Jets said: “As the world ground to a halt, with global lockdowns and illnesses, we continued to protest from our homes: recording lo-fi live covers of nine timeless tracks spanning the last half-century.