Charlatans UK Announce New Dev Hynes Co-Produced Album; Share First Single

THE CHARLATANS UK ANNOUNCE 14TH STUDIO ALBUM WE ARE LOVE ALBUM PRODUCED BY DEV HYNES, FRED MACPHERSON AND STEPHEN STREET   FIRST SINGLE, "WE ARE LOVE," OUT TODAY - LISTEN   ANNOUNCE DECEMBER UK TOUR DATES WE ARE LOVE ARRIVES OCTOBER 31, 2025 VIA BMG PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW

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The Charlatans UK kick off a new era today with the news of their 14th studio album, We Are Love, out Friday, October 31, via BMG. The announcement comes accompanied by the album's first offering, the title track "We Are Love," which the Manchester band debuted live this month at a landmark hometown show at Castlefield Bowl.   "We Are Love" is a celebratory statement of intent, an urgent, limber, clattering love song to the human race. Propelled forward by driving drums and anthemic guitar, frontman Tim Burgess describes it as "like an open-top car ride in the credits of your favorite movie, driving along the coast to somewhere amazing." One of the first tracks to emerge as they were writing, it became a pathfinder for the record, as guitarist Mark Collins explains: "Early on, we thought it felt right. And it turned out that way: first single, title track, second song on the album. And things started forming around 'We Are Love.' There was a certain energy to it that drove us forward.” LISTEN TO "WE ARE LOVE" PRE-ORDER WE ARE LOVE # # #

One of the best-loved UK bands of the last four decades, The Charlatans UK's career spans 13 albums, 22 Top 40 UK singles, three Number One UK albums and era-defining anthems like "The Only One I Know," "North Country Boy" and "One to Another" – We Are Love launches a bold new era, one that finds them at peace with their past whilse looking forward to a bright future. An eight-year gap between albums is the longest ever for one of the UK’s most enduring bands. A combination of covid, solo projects, life’s complexities and the fact that its five members - Tim Burgess (vocals) Martin Blunt (bass), Mark Collins (guitar), Tony Rogers (keyboards) and Pete Salisbury (drums) - live scattered across Europe, meant that it took longer than usual for the stars to align at the right place, right time, right vibe. They took the time to carefully select a recording A-team of production duo Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange and Lightspeed Champion) and Fred Macpherson (Spector, Rachel Chinouriri, Jessica Winter, Taahliah), plus legendary producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries), alongside a list of engineers, mixers and collaborators that reads like a who’s who of alt rock greatness. The result has been well worth the wait.   Recorded at two places that are totemic in The Charlatans UK's history - Rockfield in Wales and their own Big Mushroom space in Middlewich, Cheshire - Burgess cites hauntology and psychogeography as two concepts that swirled in his head as the band dug into the album making. For one thing, their return to storied farm studio Rockfield for the first time in almost 30 years, since they made their fifth album Tellin’ Stories, was an important step. As a band, they hadn’t been there since keyboard player Rob Collins was killed, in the middle of that album’s sessions, in a car crash at the bottom of the track leading to the farm. Throughout the record, you can hear The Charlatans UK's awareness of the stuff that’s made them – the highs and the lows; the desire to honor their own mighty legacy, whilst not being defined by it; a career-long drive to be progressive and innovative.   “The whole idea of hauntology and psychogeography is represented by us going back to Rockfield, where so much history has happened for The Charlatans," says Burgess. "That was important as a way of honoring every member who's played in the band. So we’re honouring ourselves, our past, feeling that energy and reincarnating it, doing something fresh, brand new.”   This introspection brought home the fact that love is the glue that has held The Charlatans UK together for so long, and that’s reflected in the 11 tracks that make up this forward-thinking, future-facing album. Alongside the album announcement, The Charlatans UK have also shared plans for a December UK tour, playing headline shows in Leeds, Stoke, Bath, London, Manchester, and Glasgow.   We are The Charlatans.   We Are Love.   THE CHARLATANS UK WE ARE LOVE (BMG) Release Date: October 31, 2025

Tracklist Kingdom of Ours We Are Love Many A Day A Heartache For The Girls You Can’t Push The River Deeper and Deeper Appetite Salt Water Out On Our Own Glad You Grabbed Me Now Everything # # #   THE CHARLATANS - TOUR 2025 DECEMBER 6 - Leeds, O2 Academy 7 - Stoke, Victoria Hall 8 - Bath, Forum 10 - London, Roundhouse 11 - Manchester, Academy 12 - Glasgow, Barrowland CONNECT WITH THE CHARLATANS UK Website | Facebook | Instagram | X