Spector will release new Album ‘Here Come The Early Nights’ on November 24th.

The cult indie heroes are back, with new single ‘The Notion’ marking their dramatic return. Fred MacPherson & Co. have completed work on a new album, and their fresh chapter opens up this Autumn.

New album ‘Here Come The Early Nights’ was completed alongside long-time collaborator Dimitri Tikovoi, while respected studio guru Catherine Marks steps in on mixing duties.

A full tour is slated for November, with Fred MacPherson saying of the album…

We’ve been keen to work with Dimitri Tikovoi again since we made the Ex-Directory EP which kind of single handedly resuscitated our career. We started working on a few ideas with him, including the song that ended up becoming ‘Driving Home for Halloween’ and then discussed making a whole album together but it soon transpired he only had thirteen days spare.

With our previous albums having taken anything from a month to over a year to record, that time span felt like an exciting challenge. Jen and Nic recorded all their rhythm parts in two days at the amazing Narcissus in Willesden Green, then we reverted to Dimitri’s studio in Kensal Rise, where Jed and I would take it in turns recording with Dimitri while the other finished ideas against the clock in the room next store.

Working with alacrity, the lyrics on ‘Here Come The Early Nights’ up-end indie cliche to focus on ageing, maturity, and grappling with the slings and arrows of the modern world. Fred comments:

It feels like a slightly more reflective record than the last one, and maybe it’s the fewest love songs we’ve ever had on an album, despite the songs being written with more love. As ever, there are lyrics dealing with the tenets of getting older (which is funny because I thought I was old when we were writing Enjoy It While It Lasts) like hair loss, (‘Not Another Weekend’), moving house (‘Room with a Different View’) and not being able to go clubbing with a baby (‘Here Come the Early Nights’) it also deals with a few slightly more abstract concepts, from imagined phone calls with a friend who doesn’t pick up (‘Some People’) to the missing Raphael painting ‘Portrait of a Young Man’ (‘Pressure’).

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Alongside the announce Spector have launched plans for a massive UK tour:

November
28 Edinburgh The Caves
29 Newcastle University Students Union
30 Leeds Stylus

December
1 Birmingham Mama Roux’s
3 Bristol Trinity Centre
12 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
13 Southampton The Joiners
14 London Electric Brixton
15 Manchester Canvas

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