Mystery Jets announce new album, 'Radlands'

Mystery Jets have announced that on May 1st (April 30th UK) they will release their fourth studio album, Radlands, via Rough Trade Records. What's the story behind the title? According to frontman Blaine Harrison it's "a fusion of the 1970s Terrence Malick film ‘Badlands’ and Redlands, Keith Richard’s Sussex estate". The new effort was recorded and partially written in Austin, TX where the UK band felt was a good place to connect. The video teaser below will give you more details on their journey.

When we arrived home, it was hard to believe any of it even happened. It somehow all felt like a strange dream. But when Dan Carey heard it and invited us down to his studio we listened back to everything and it was all there, it was real. All we were missing were some gospel singers, which he found in the Streatham community ladies choir…