Band of Skulls announce new album “By Default”

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Band of Skulls. (Photo: Andy Cotterill)

U.K. rockers Band of Skulls will release their new album, By Default, on May 27th via BMG, their first album with the label.

“Killer,” the first song to be revealed from the record is available now with album pre-order. Watch the video below.

Produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith) and recorded in Rockfield Studios, By Default is the follow up to 2014’s Himalayan.

The record came about via a conscious decision from the British trio to take a step back from their relentless worldwide touring schedule (having never spent more than a month off the road in the last two years) to decamp to and write songs in a Southampton Baptist Church-turned-makeshift HQ.

“We went back to square one,” says drummer Matt Hayward. In the church—between visits from the vicar, bringing tea and biscuits on his trolley—they found the new songs in hours of woodshedding on ratty old practice amps. “It’s definitely a new era,” says guitarist/vocalist Russell Marsden. “The first three records were like a trilogy, a piece of work in of themselves. We wanted to do those things, and we did them all. We took a breath, took a look at what we’d done, and started from scratch again.”

Fans can pre-order By Default on iTunes here.

By Default Track-Listing
1. Black Magic
2. Back of Beyond
3. Killer
4. Bodies
5. Tropical Disease
6. So Good
7. This Is My Fix
8. Little Mamma
9. Embers
10. In Love By Default
11. Erounds
12. Something