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Stereophonics Confirm 13th LP

Stereophonics have announced their 13th studio album, ‘Make ‘em Laugh, Make ‘em Cry, Make ‘em Wait’ will be released on April 25.

Preempting their LP follow up to 2022’s ‘Oochya!,’ fans can now stream the new lead single, ‘There’s Always Gonna Be Something.’

About the new single, front man Kelly Jones said “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.”

The eight track collection promises to be “devoid of any fat or filler”, and as the press release states “It is at once clean and precise. Hopeful and joyous. It does what it says on the cover. You Laugh, You Cry, You Wait.”

Now 50-years of age, Kelly, shared the inspiration behind the album’s pink cover art, recalling:

“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.”

In addition to the release of their new full length, the Stereophonics will launch their ‘Stadium Anthems’ tour that will include two hometown gigs at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 11 and 12, and will be performing shows across North America and Europe.

Aside from from Stereophonics, Kelly dropped his second solo LP ‘Inevitable Incredible’ in 2024 and released the self-titled debut album by his side project Far From Saints in 2023.

‘Make ‘em Laugh, Make ‘em Cry, Make ‘em Wait’ is available to pre-order now and the track listing includes:

‘Make It On Your Own’

‘There’s Always Gonna Be Something’

‘Seems Like You Don’t Know Me’

‘Colours Of October’

‘Eyes Too Big For My Belly’

‘Mary Is A Singer’

‘Backroom Boys’

‘Feeling Of Falling We Crave’

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Author: Al Denté

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