NEWS: Dutch Uncles announce new album ‘Big Balloon,’ share title track

Art-pop group Dutch Uncles have announced that their new LP Big Balloon will be coming out on 17^th February 2017 via Memphis Industries.  It’s their fifth record and has taken inspiration from Kate Bush’s The Red Shoes, Low-era David Bowie, Eastern European techno and their own dads’ record collections.  Thematically, it’s set to deal with everything from austerity, paranoia and loneliness to fried chicken.

To coincide with the announcement, the band shared the record’s title track via Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6Music show.  Singer and lyricist Duncan Wallis said of ‘Big Balloon’: “The song has a simple message: to be content with who you are.  If you need help with that, then don’t be ashamed or frustrated.  If other people appear to be doing a better job at being you than you then it means that that’s not you.  And that’s okay too.”

He continued: “As soon as recording began, it felt like the perfect response to the feelings of abandonment we’d been harbouring recently.  We see it as the perfect distillation of everything we set out to achieve on the new record.”  Listen below.

A few weeks ago, the band also revealed that they’d be going on an extensive tour of the UK.  Details below.

1^st March – Electric Circus, Edinburgh
2^nd March – The Cluny, Newcastle
3^rd March – The Wardrobe, Leeds
4^th March – Bodega, Nottingham
6^th March – Hare and Hounds, Birmingham
7^th March – The Plug, Sheffield
8^th March – O2 Academy 2, Oxford
9^th March – Fleece, Bristol
11^th March – The Haunt, Brighton
12^th March – Talking Heads, Southampton
13^th March – Village Underground, London
15^th March – Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester