Public Service Broadcasting Announce Fifth Studio Album 'The Last Flight' With New Single Electra
Tuesday, 09 July 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Alex Lake
Public Service Broadcasting will release their fifth studio album in the autumn.
The follow-up to 2021's 'Bright Magic' is called 'The Last Flight' and will arrive on October 4 via the London-based group's new label home, SO Recordings.
Recorded at the band's studio in South-East London and featuring the London Contemporary Orchestra and Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket, among others, the record focuses on American pioneering female aviatrix Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Public Service Broadcasting founder J. Willgoose Esq. said:
"I wanted to do a woman-focused story, because most of the archive we have access to is overwhelmingly male. I was initially drawn in by Earhart’s final fight, rather than the successes that she had, but the more I read the more I became fascinated by her. Her bravery and her aeronautical achievements were extraordinary, but her philosophy and the dignity that she had… she was an outstanding person.
"The final flight is the spine of the journey: the story jumps off at different points, and examines different facets of her personality, her relationship with her husband, her attitude to flying, her attitude to existing. She gave herself, I think, less than a 50% chance of survival when she flew the Atlantic alone. To put yourself, willingly, in those situations… I think it says something about that drive at the heart of humanity.
"However 'The Last Flight' isn’t doom-laden or covered in grief. There’s adventure, freedom, the joy of being alive. The reason why she wanted to fly was to find the beauty in living – ‘to know the reason why I’m alive, and to feel that every minute.’ The flight did fail, but she was right. Of all the people we’ve written about, I have the deepest respect and admiration for her."
As a preview, the band have shared the project's first single, Electra, a soaring track inspired by Earhart's plane of the same name. Offering the group's familiar core sound, it builds in intensity through dialogue samples, cinematic rock, pulsating electro-pop and orchestral elements.
Willgoose Esq added: "The song is about Amelia Earhart's plane, the marvellously named Electra. To match the name, the vibrancy and the excitement of the aircraft, the track is full of pulsing electronics and interlocking, percussive melody lines, plus pace."
Public Service Broadcasting will support the LP with a previously scheduled UK and European tour in the autumn. They'll also play a series of in-store and out-store dates during release week.
1. I Was Always Dreaming
2. Towards The Dawn
3. The Fun Of It [feat. Andreya Casablanca]
4. The South Atlantic [feat. This Is The Kit]
5. Electra
6. Arabian Flight
7. Monsoons
8. A Different Kind Of Love [feat. EERA]
9. Howland
Public Service Broadcasting Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Fri October 11 2024 - CORK Cyprus Avenue
Sat October 12 2024 - BELFAST Telegraph Building
Sun October 13 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre
Wed October 16 2024 - GLASGOW Barrowland
Thu October 17 2024 - ABERDEEN Music Hall
Fri October 18 2024 - MANCHESTER Albert Hall Manchester
Sat October 19 2024 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Mon October 21 2024 - GATESHEAD Glasshouse
Tue October 22 2024 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Thu October 24 2024 - COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre
Fri October 25 2024 - CAMBRIDGE Corn exchange
Sat October 26 2024 - BRISTOL Beacon
Mon October 28 2024 - CARDIFF University Great Hall
Tue October 29 2024 - LONDON Roundhouse
Wed October 30 2024 - BRIGHTON Dome
Thu October 31 2024 - AYLESBURY Waterside Theatre
Sat November 02 2024 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre
Sun November 03 2024 - BELFAST Telegraph Building
Mon November 04 2024 - CORK Cyprus Avenue
Sun November 10 2024 - AMSTERDAM Melkweg (Netherlands)
Mon November 11 2024 - BRUSSELS Ancienne Belgique (Belgium)
Tue November 12 2024 - COLOGNE Gebaude 9 (Germany)
Wed November 13 2024 - GRONINGEN Vera (Netherlands)
Thu November 14 2024 - HAMBURG Knust (Germany)
Sat November 16 2024 - OSLO Bla (Norway)
Sun November 17 2024 - STOCKHOLM Kagelbanan (Sweden)
Mon November 18 2024 - COPENHAGEN Vega (Denmark)
Tue November 19 2024 - BERLIN Columbia Theatre (Germany)
Wed November 20 2024 - MUNICH Ampere (Germany)
Thu November 21 2024 - ZURICH Mascotte (Switzerland)
Sat November 23 2024 - MILAN Arci Bellezza (Italy)
Mon November 25 2024 - BARCELONA La Nau (Spain)
Tue November 26 2024 - MADRID Sala Copernico (Spain)
Wed November 27 2024 - SAN SEBASTIAN Dabadaba Club (Spain)
Fri November 29 2024 - PARIS Petit Bain (France)
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