A have announced their return after 20 years with a new album ‘Prang’ and single ‘Hello Sunshine’. Check it out below.
The British alt-rock band’s new album will serve as a follow-up to 2005’s Teen Dance Ordinance. ‘Prang’ arrives on May 22 via Cooking Vinyl, and is available to pre-order here.
Its first taste comes in the form of strutting lead single ‘Hello Sunshine’. Built around a glaring guitar riff, the track sees the band return to the loose, joyful spirit of their earliest releases. “Hello. Sunshine. You feel good on my mind/Let’s go sunshine. You’ll feel good at meal time,” vocalist Jason Perry sings on the chorus.
Check it out below.
The band is comprised of Jason Perry, guitarist Mark Chapman, bassist Richard Trigg, drummer Adam Perry and keyboardist Giles Perry.
Jason helmed production for the upcoming record, explaining that “there’s a messiness to it that allows our personality to come through – which is where the magic really happens.”
He continues: “I don’t want anyone to put on an ‘A’ record and think it sounds like it was hard work making it. Life’s hard enough – there has to be fun in making music.”
The record is set to include an eclectic range of sonic references, including “country-tinged textures” and “gospel-inspired arrangements”, per a press release, and lyrically will explore “gratitude, resilience, mental health and friendship”, with Perry a mental health advocate and ambassador for the International Association for Suicide Prevention.
“By the end of ‘A’ in 2005, I felt like we didn’t have anything to say anymore. Now, I really do,” he said in a press release. “We had to go and live a life. We’ve seen massive lows that we’ve helped each other through. This album is gratitude – gratitude for friendship, for still making music, for still being alive.”
Check out the album cover and tracklist below.
The ‘PRANG’ tracklist is:
‘Hello Sunshine’
‘Walkover’
‘Bring On The Likes’
‘Shit Summer’
‘All In’
‘Techno Viking’
‘Kings of Lowestoft’
‘Comment Leaver’
‘Back To The Shop’
‘Lifeline’
The band are set to make their live return at this year’s Slam Dunk Festival, 2000Trees Festival and on tour with The Darkness this December.
A formed in Lowestoft in 1993, and released four studio albums between then and 2005, with their 2002 album ‘Hi-Fi Serious’ landing in the UK Top 20 album charts.
Shortly after releasing ‘Teen Dance Ordinance’ in 2005, they briefly split, before returning in 2007 for a one-off gig. They’ve played a spattering of shows since then, including the main stage at Download Pilot in 2021.
BBC Radio 1 Rock Show DJ Daniel P Carter joined the band as bassist in 1997, but did not return following their hiatus.
