Come March of 2025, the Stereophonics will drop their thirteenth album.
With a brand new single scheduled for January, the Welsh-born band have already recorded the follow up to 2022’s ‘Oochya!’ with their new full length coming two months thereafter.
in a recent interview with Johnny Vaughan on Radio X, frontman Kelly Jones said:
“Yeah, our new single’s out in January and then the album’s in March, so there you go!” And taking to social media, Jones wrote that the LP has been recorded and that he can’t wait to get back on the road with the band, adding:
“Being on the road again with my best friends, playing all the hits of this band’s catalogue, for people in huge outdoor gatherings through the summer of 2025 makes me so excited, we should make a new album…oh wait …we already did that! See ya there for more good times….TUNE!!! TUNE!!! TUNE!!”
In July and August the group will embark on their ‘Stadium Anthems’ tour of the UK and Ireland ending with a hometown gig at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.
In 2024, the now 50-year old Kelly released his solo album ‘Inevitable Incredible’ and admitted he’d been nervous about stepping outside of the band and sharing his own music. In an article for England’s NME, Jones stated:
“A fear of stepping outside the success of Stereophonics, a band I formed when I was a teenager has gripped me for a long time. It may all fall apart. More fear. But a lot of music I was creating was getting lost. New music sometimes needs a concentrated space to be appreciated fully in its correct surroundings and context, many great songs I presented under Stereophonics got overlooked by the anthems…” “I want to make music like filmmakers make films. Different subjects and landscapes and tones from one project to the next. I saw Ethan Hawke say somewhere, something like, No one gives a f*** about poetry or Yeats until their Dad dies and then they need a verse to tell them what it all means at the funeral. I think this album is a little like that. I want to be truthful and honest even if that puts me in a very vulnerable place, I can’t phone this in. I don’t know fully what this record is or what it means, but if you’re in a place you’re looking or searching for something within you, you may find something within these songs that connect to you.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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