Public Service Broadcasting have released their latest single, ‘The South Atlantic’, featuring This Is The Kit. The track is the second taken from their upcoming fifth studio album, The Last Flight, due out in October and follows the release of the album’s first single ‘Electra’.
Featuring a warm, orchestral backing atop the sweetly ominous narrative of Kate Stables (This Is The Kit). ‘The South Atlantic’ is an ode to Amelia Earhart’s determination and passion in her fateful final flight, crying out to “Try to aim higher, further, slower.” My Morning Jacket‘s Carl Broemel adds beautiful layers of pedal steel guitar and e-bow to an already rich palette of sounds.
Speaking about the track, J. Willgoose, Esq. said: “The song tells the story of Earhart’s third successful transatlantic, and her first south of the Equator. I wanted to write something that’d sound good to listen to while looking out of an aeroplane window, something calm and serene but with a sense of forward motion. Kate, Carl and the strings players from the London Contemporary Orchestra really took this track somewhere else – I love what they all brought to it.”
Public Service Broadcasting will celebrate the album’s release with a UK and European tour this autumn. They begin with a number of instore/outstore performances, beginning in Leeds on 4 October and concluding on 10 October in Edinburgh. Full details and tickets for the instore/outstore tour can be found here.
Their main tour kicks off in Glasgow’s famous Barrowland on 16 October and sees the band play 14 UK dates, with support from Halo Maud. The band play in Ireland on 2 and 4 November before heading to mainland Europe. They will play a sold out show in Amsterdam on 10 Nov, with performances in Belgium, Sweden, Italy and Spain following. The tour concludes in Paris on 29 November. Full tour dates and tickets can be found here.
The Last Flight is out on 4 October via SO Recordings. Pre-order here.
