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Arcade Fire have announced two London dates – and they’re both fairly intimate affairs for band of their stature.

The Canadian band is set to play the 1200-capacity York Hall in Bethnal Green on July 4 and 5. The dates come hot on the heels of previously announced gigs that will see Arcade Fire call at the Scunthorpe Baths Hall (June 7), Edinburgh Corn Exchange (June 8), the Isle of Wight festival (June 10), Belfast’s Ormeau Park (June 13), Dublin’s Malahide Castle (June 14) and Manchester Castlefield Bowl (July 6).

Tickets for the tour are available here.

As previously reported on Gigwise, Arcade Fire are set to release their fifth album, the follow-up to 2013’s Reflektor. Originally thought to be ready for a spring release, it appears that the album will be out later in the year.

They did, however, release their first new track in two years, ‘I Give You Power’, which featured the vocal talents of Mavis Staples. Additionally, Arcade Fire previewed six new songs at a warm-up gig in Montreal two weeks ago. None of the new material has leaked online thanks to fans having to leave their mobile phones at the door.

Speaking of the new album, drummer Jeremy Gara said: “All of [the songs] have been recorded. The album should come out this year. At this stage we are still mixing and trying to decide which songs will end up on the record, because we’ve recorded more than we need. But we’re almost finished. I don’t know when it’ll come out, I hope soon.”