Bloc Party confirm details of new album ‘Hymns’

Having showcased their first new material in two years last week, Bloc Party have now firmed up plans for their new album.

‘Hymns’ - the title of which frontman Kele Okereke has previously revealed - will be released on 29th January 2016, and will be eleven tracks in length.

News of the band’s fifth record follows on from their new track ‘The Love Within’, which was showcased on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show last Monday, and can be heard below.

The tracklisting of ‘Hymns’ - which will be the first Bloc Party album to feature new members Justin Harris and Louise Bartle - is as follows.

1. The Love Within
2. Only He Can Heal Me
3. So Real
4. The Good News
5. Fortress
6. Different Drugs
7. Into The Earth
8. My True Name
9. Virtue
10. Exes
11. Living Lux

There’ll also be a deluxe edition of the album boasting four additional tracks (‘Eden’, ‘Paradiso’, ‘New Blood, ‘Evening Song’), while the album itself will be released on CD, vinyl and digital download formats.

Listen to ‘The Love Within’, the first track to be taken from their forthcoming fifth full-length, now: