- 2025-01-31
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MUSIC
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Stereophonics Announces New Album “Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait”, Shares New Song “There's Always Gonna Be Something”
Welsh rock band Stereophonics, consisting of Kelly Jones (vocals/guitar), Richard Jones (bass), Adam Zindani (guitar) and Jamie Morrison (drums), has announced their upcoming 13th studio album “Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait” will be released on April 25, 2025 via EMI.
The album marks their first LP in three years since the 2022 album “Oochya!” and comprises 8 songs.
The band wrote and recorded the album in London.
Additionally, the band shared the album artwork, which was inspired by a painting by late French-American artist Louise Bourgeois.
The band frontman Kelly Jones said of the artwork, “I went to New York, I visited some galleries, I saw ‘ART IS A GUARANTY OF SANITY’, a painting by Louise Bourgeois. She believed art was a form of mental healing and a way to process difficult emotions. The spelling caught me first, then the simplicity of the words etched onto a pink tile. So I tried scratching my title, inspired by my own art school teacher thirty years ago. And I loved it. I loved the simplicity of the pink. The pink album was born.”- From the album, the band the first single called “There's Always Gonna Be Something” on January 30, 2025.
The track was written and produced by Kelly Jones.
The band frontman Kelly Jones said of the song, “‘There’s Always Gonna Be Something’ is a song that could be describing the restlessness in uncertainty, struggling to arrive at acceptance. A part within all of us.” -
Stereophonics embarks on their first tour in three years in the North America, UK, Ireland and Europe, including Vestrock Festival, Dauwpop Festival and Isle Of Wight Festival.
The tour kicks off at Théâtre Beanfield in Montreal, QC on March 21st and will conclude at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, UK on August 16, 2025.
Learn more about tour dates, here.
Kelly Jones said, “Being on the road again with my best friends, playing all the hits of this band’s catalog, for people in 2025 makes me so excited, we should make a new album…oh wait...we already did that! See ya there for more good times.”
Photo by James D Kelly - source : Apple Music
