The Twang announce album release date and remix

The Twang release their new album 'Jewellery Quarter' on July 20th. The band will also release their new single 'Barney Rubble' on the 13th July. After unveiling the upcoming single 'Barney Rubble' last week via their Myspace profile, the band are going to be posting a new remix of the track each week until the single release.

Check out the first remix of 'Barney Rubble', courtesy of Starsmith, over at myspace.com/thetwang now.

One of the UK success stories of the last two years return with a new album in July. The Twang were the subject of intense debate on their emergence in 2007 with the NME declaring them 'The best new band in Britain' and went on to deliver two of the anthems of the year in the forms of 'Either Way' and 'Wide Awake' alongside a Top 3 debut album in the shape of 'Love It When I Feel Like This'. As they toured the UK leaving stories of varying accuracy wherever they went, the five lads from Birmingham were the epitome of a rock 'n' roll band earning the undying loyalty of a huge and vocal fanbase. In the process they revitalized a UK music scene that had become a little too arch for its own good, were the subject of endless pro and anti letters in the weekly music press and, as all classic working class bands should, pissed off those who want 'safe chaos' from their artists.

Two years from that explosion of interest, the band return with an album that draws on those experiences, both good and bad, and marks a more mature and soulful set of songs. Having avoided the classic second album syndromes of writing about tour buses or developing neuroses about their public perception, the lyrics of singers Phil Etheridge and Saunders and bassist Jon Watkin deal instead with the familiar and, at times, brutally personal experiences of the band their friends and their lovers. In a sense, all of human life is here. Naming the album after the area rapidly becoming the cultural powerhouse of the second city, home to both the band's studio and that of world renowned cover artist TEMPER, is a marker that this is very much an album made by Birmingham.

The sleeve for the album features a specially commissioned piece of artwork by Temper. Known throughout the world for his spray can art, Temper is as Birmingham through and through as the band and has, over the course of the last decade, built a staggering reputation in the art world for his unique use of graffiti art materials to create fine art canvasses of quite incredible beauty and intricacy. The band and Temper were mutual admirers before meeting following a Twang show and deciding to work together.

The single is preceded by both a free download, the piano led 'Another Bus' available now from the bands site at www.thetwang.co.uk, and a single, the hi-life rhythms of 'Barney Rubble', on 13th July.

Live dates:

Thursday July 9th – Manchester Academy 2
Friday July 13th – Birmingham Rainbow Warehouse
Saturday July 14th – London Electric Ballroom