Veteran Liverpudlian band Echo & The Bunnymen have announced details of their new album, the first since 2005’s ‘Siberia’. ‘The Fountain’ will be released on October 12th and will be preceded by a single, ‘I Think It Too’ on September 28th.
The band were formed in Liverpool in 1978 by Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant and Les Pattison, who were joined two years later by Pete de Freitas on drums. After releasing two critically-acclaimed albums, the band found commercial success with 1983 hit ‘The Cutter’. After the release of their eponymous 1987 album, singer Ian McCulloch left the band with the intention of pursuing a solo career, and in 1989 de Freitas was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident. The remaining two members continued on, recruiting new members including front man Noel Burke, but split in 1993 after the album ‘Reverberation’. In 1997, the surviving three original members reformed the group, and found new success with 1997 hit single ‘Nothing Ever Lasts Forever’ from the album ‘Evergreen’. They have since released a further three records.
Echo and the Bunnymen perform The Cutter at Royal Albert Hall , 1983
The band have also announced four live dates to coincide with the release of the new album, starting in Wolverhampton on October 12th, they then visit Manchester, Glasgow and London before finishing in Oxford on December 12th.