Here he comes! After a sneaky reveal of the title earlier this week, Declan McKenna has announced the full details of his debut album ‘What Do You Think About The Car?’.
Dec’s much anticipated full-length will drop on 21st July via Columbia. It was recorded – bar three tracks – with mega-producer James Ford. One of the others, album closer ‘Listen To Your Friends’, was ‘done’ with ex-Vampire Weekend maestro Rostam Batmanglij. That’s cool.
Alongside the announcement comes the reveal that Dec’s going right back to where it started, releasing ‘Brazil’ as his new (but not really new, but still, new in ‘release schedule terms’) single. The track that kickstarted it all, it comes alongside a new video that you can check out below.
And then we have the artwork. Seriously. Someone throw some water on us. Something round here is smouldering.
Deccers is off on tour this May – playing most of the run with Girli. If there’s still a planet to inhabit by the time those two are done, he’ll be playing Glastonbury, Latitude and Reading & Leeds this summer. The dates read:
May
15 Thekla, Bristol
16 Junction 2, Cambridge
17 Gorilla, Manchester
19 Academy 2, Dublin
20 Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast
21 King Tuts, Glasgow
23 Heaven, London
24 O2 Institute 2, Birmingham
26 Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
27 Sound City Festival, Liverpool
30 Concorde 2, Brighton
June
21 Zephyr Lounge, Leamington Spa (Glastonbury warm-up show)
22 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff (Glastonbury warm-up show)
23-25 Glastonbury Festival
July
15 Latitude Festival, Southwold
August
25 Reading Festival
26 Leeds Festival