Biffy Clyro announce new album ‘Futique’ ahead of huge Glastonbury slot
Biffy Clyro have announced details of a new album, ahead of their huge slot at Glastonbury 2025.
The news comes following the band recently sharing their new single ‘A Little Love’ – which saw them head straight to the top of the UK’s Official Vinyl Singles Chart.
The long-awaited record will be called ‘Futique’, and will be available on September 26. You can pre-order it here.
According to the band’s Simon Neil, the record is “an exploration of ideas, objects or relationships that exist across time”. He continued: “We are never aware when we do anything for the last time and there’s a beauty and sadness within that. What will be your ‘Futique’?”
The idea for the record was sparked by how our perceptions of memory have shifted during the digital era. While we may reminisce about things we miss from our youth, there could also be things that we take for granted now, but may miss in the future.
It was also inspired as Neil looked back at his journey with bandmates James and Ben Johnston, which began with them playing Nirvana covers in their garage as teenagers, and progressed to them headlining Reading and Download.
The message the band hopes to share with the record is also one of gratitude, encouraging people to take time to appreciate what they have, instead of getting too caught up in the hectic demands of life.
A limited first-pressing LP is available for the next 48 hours. It comes pressed on recycled black vinyl and housed in a hand-stamped and hand-numbered white disco bag.
News of the new record marks the follow-up to 2020’s ‘A Celebration Of Endings’ and 2021’s ‘The Myth Of The Happily Ever After’, and also follows a busy 2023 of Simon Neil performing with his other group Empire State Bastard. That is the band he formed with Oceansize’s Mike Vennart, Bitch Falcon bassist Naomi Macleod and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo.
It also arrives shortly before the band play the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2025. Their set will be held on Friday (June 27) at 8:15pm, and may see them break out some new, currently-unreleased material from the upcoming album.
Afterwards, they will perform slots at Eden Sessions and TRNSMT next month. Visit here for remaining tickets.
New music comes as the band teased that they were “back at it” at the start of the year, before sharing photos and footage of them recording their new record in Berlin.
It also follows the group reissuing a limited edition run of their first three albums on vinyl – before performing ‘Blackened Sky‘, ‘The Vertigo Of Bliss‘ and ‘Infinity Land’ across three nights at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire.
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