Biffy Clyro have announced details of a new album – ‘The Myth of the Happily Ever After’ is out next month.
The album, out October 22, is being billed as “a reaction” to the band’s 2020 record ‘A Celebration Of Endings’, and is being previewed today (September 3) by six-minute first single ‘Unknown Male 01’ – listen to that below.
“This album is a real journey, a collision of every thought and emotion we’ve had over the past eighteen months,” frontman Simon Neil said of the new record. “There was a real fortitude in ‘A Celebration’ but in this record we’re embracing the vulnerabilities of being a band and being a human in this twisted era of our lives.
“Even the title is the polar opposite. It’s asking, do we create these narratives in our own minds to give us some security when none of us know what’s waiting for us at the end of the day?”
Listen to first single ‘Unknown Male 01’ below:
Speaking about the album’s first single’s themes of loss, Neil added: “When you lose people that you love deeply and have been a big part of your life, it can make you question every single thing about your own life.
“Like a lot of creative people, I struggle with dark thoughts. If you’re that way inclined you realise you’re staring at darkness, but you don’t want to succumb. Those moments don’t stop. As the song says, ‘The devil never leaves.’ There’s never a day where you wake up thinking, ‘I feel great, it won’t cross me ever again.’”
See the artwork and tracklist for ‘The Myth of the Happily Ever After’ below. Fans can pre-order the album here.
1. ‘DumDum’
2. ‘A Hunger in Your Haunt’
3. ‘Denier’
4. ‘Separate Missions’
5. ‘Witch’s Cup’
6. ‘Holy Water’
7. ‘Errors in the History of God’
8. ‘Haru Urara’
9. ‘Unknown Male 01’
10. ‘Existed’
11. ‘Slurpy Slurpy Sleep Sleep’
Back in May, NME spoke to Biffy Clyro on the red carpet at the 2021 BRIT Awards, where the band revealed they had finished their new album the previous week.
“We weren’t intending on doing it, but we’ve ended up making an amazing album,” Neil told NME. Watch the full video interview above.
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