The Divine Comedy announce ‘Wet Sunday Afternoon’ album with new single

The Divine Comedy have shared particulars of a brand new album referred to as ‘Wet Sunday Afternoon’. Try the brand new single ‘Achilles’ and the brand new tour dates beneath.

Introduced as we speak (April 9), the report marks the primary new studio album from The Divine Comedy since they launched their ‘Workplace Politics’ LP again in 2019. It additionally follows on from a re-master and re-release of their again catalogue the next yr, and the ‘Charmed Life’ best-of album that got here out in 2022.

Set to reach on September 19, the brand new report will mark the thirteenth report from the band, and was recorded on the iconic Abbey Highway Studios.

In accordance with a brand new press launch, the album is written, organized and produced by Neil Hannon, and set to take an in-depth take a look at a number of the strongest feelings “unhappy, humorous, offended and every thing in between.”

Together with the information of the album, the band have additionally shared the primary teaser of what followers can anticipate from the report – dropping the lead single ‘Achilles’.

The music encapsulates the motifs on the coronary heart of the report, and sees Hannon embrace a number of the lightheartedness that he discovered whereas writing the unique songs for the hit 2023 movie starring Timothée Chalamet, Wonka.

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“My musical output is, for higher or worse, a illustration of my character,” Neil Hannon admits. “An excellent chunk of that character revels within the rumbumptious; celebrates the foolish. And I made ample use of that for the Wonka songs,” he stated of the discharge.

“I've, although, like everybody, a darker, extra melancholy aspect. And for one cause or one other it has been a lot in proof of late,” Neil explains. “I wanted to make use of this album as an outlet for these emotions. To work by means of some stuff. Mortality; recollections; relationships; political and social upheaval. Everybody ought to get to make an orchestral pop album every so often. It ought to be obtainable on the NHS.”

Try the music above and pre-order the album here.

In addition to releasing new materials, The Diving Comedy have additionally shared particulars of a brand new tour of the UK which is about to kick off this autumn.

In complete, 16 exhibits have been added to the schedule and kick off with a gap evening on the Philharmonic Corridor in Liverpool on October 6. They proceed the subsequent evening (7) with a cease on the Royal Live performance Corridor in Nottingham, adopted by exhibits in Bathtub, Brighton, Cambridge, Sheffield, Wolverhampton and Glasgow.

Two exhibits are deliberate for London’s Barbican on October 11 and 12, and the exhibits wrap up with additional dates in Glasgow, York, Oxford, Manchester and Brighton all through the rest of the month.

Tickets go on sale subsequent Thursday (April 17) at 10am BST and may be discovered here. A press launch states that additional exhibits in Eire and Europe might be introduced at a later date.

The Divine Comedy’s UK 2025 tour dates are:

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6 – Liverpool, Philharmonic Corridor 
7 – Nottingham, Royal Live performance Corridor 
8 – Bathtub, Discussion board 
10 – Gateshead, The Glasshouse
11 – London, Barbican 
12 – London, Barbican 
13 – Brighton, Dome 
15 – Cambridge, Corn Alternate 
16 – Sheffield, Metropolis Corridor 
17 – Wolverhampton, Uni The Civic Corridor 
18 – Swansea, Enviornment
20 – Glasgow, Royal Live performance Corridor 
21 – York, Barbican 
23 – Oxford, New Theatre
24 – Manchester, Bridgewater Corridor 
25 – Bristol, Beacon

Alongside writing music with The Divine Comedy, current years have seen Hannon write authentic materials for on-stage and on-screen productions. Other than the aforementioned Wonka movie, he has additionally created music for a comedy referred to as Swallows And Amazons, which was carried out in London’s Vaudeville Theatre in 2011, in addition to work on a musical adaptation of the Father Ted sequence.