Placebo Have Announced The Details Of Their New Album ‘Never Let Me Go’, Their First In Nine Years

You can also check out their delicately thrilling new track ‘Surrounded By Spies’ right now too.

Placebo have announced all of the details of ‘Never Let Me Go’, their first album since 2013.

It will be released on March 22 2022.

The artwork looks like this:

And the tracklisting like this:

01. Forever Chemicals
02. Beautiful James
03. Hugz
04. Happy Birthday In The Sky
05. The Prodigal
06. Surrounded By Spies
07. Try Better Next Time
08. Sad White Reggae
09. Twin Demons
10. Chemtrails
11. This Is What You Wanted
12. Went Missing
13. Fix Yourself

You can also check out a new track called ‘Surrounded By Spies’, a delicately discomforting ode to the world around us.

Vocalist Brian Molko had this to say about it:

“I began writing the lyrics when I discovered my neighbours were spying on me on behalf of parties with a nefarious agenda. I then began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction of worldwide CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the cellphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and spectators in their own lives, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.

I used the cut-up technique invented by William S Burroughs and popularized in modern song by David Bowie. It’s a true story told through a lens of paranoia, complete disgust for modern society’s values and the deification of surveillance capitalism. The narrator is at the end of their tether, hopeless and afraid, completely at odds with our newfound progress and the god of money.”

You can also check out the previously released ‘Beautiful James’ right now too:

The band will also be heading out on a tour of the UK, which you can check out the dates of below:

NOVEMBER 2022

18 – PORTSMOUTH Guildhall
19 – BRIGHTON Brighton Centre
21 – LIVERPOOL Eventim Olympia
22 – MANCHESTER Victoria Warehouse
24 – CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena
26 – LONDON Brixton Academy
27 – LONDON Brixton Academy
29 – LEICESTER De Montford Hall
30 – LEEDS Academy

DECEMBER 2022

02 – NEWCASTLE City Hall
03- GLASGOW Academy Glasgow
05 – DUBLIN 3 Arena
07 – CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
08 – BIRMINGHAM Academy 1

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