XX Teens album out soon

Welcome To Goon Island, the debut album from XX Teens, will be released through Mute on 28th July 2008.

The 11-track album will be preceded by a single, Only You, on 14th July.

XX Teens have recently completed a run of dates, both supporting The Long Blondes and their own headline gigs, culminating in a show at London's ICA and two performances at Glastonbury Festival. Gigs on the horizon include a headline set at Kill Em All @ Fabric on the 18th July and performances at Reading/Leeds Festival and Bestival later on in the year.

Somewhat of a metaphor for Britain, Welcome To Goon Island is born from the great British Art School tradition, the core of the band having met at art college in Southend; vivid, interesting, expansive and far-reaching, an aesthetic that seeps into everything they do from their other-worldly videos via intriguing photos to extra curricular activities such as training dogs to dance. Yet such apparent frippery shouldn't disguise their uncanny ability to pen rather fine songs, as Welcome To Goon Island attests.

Previous singles such as Onkawara, Darlin' and How To Reduce The Chances Of Being A Terror Victim have already seen them bag single of the week slots in NME, praise from the likes of Zane on Radio1, front covers of Artrocker and a slot in the NME's tracks of 2007 list. And with Welcome To Goon Island, XX Teens look set to bring a bit of depth & technicolour joy into the sometime hegemonic drabness of the current musical landscape.

The full tracklisting for the album is as follows:

1. The Way We Were
2. B-54
3. Round
4. Ba (Ba-Ba Ba)
5. Onkawara
6. (Reprise)
7. Only You
8. My Favourite Hat
9. Darlin'
10. Sun Comes Up
11. For Brian Haw

The album was produced by with Ross Orton (Fat Truckers, MIA, Bromheads Jacket, Kid Acne) in Sheffield at the end of 2007. A joyous and innovative record which rumbles, rolls & swings coming to an end with the swirling psychedelia of Sun Comes Up and a moving eulogy from Brian Haw.

XX TEENS are: Anthony Silvester (guitar), Rich Cash (vocals), William Morrow (guitar), Leo Taylor (drums) & Jorgen Raa (bass).