The Cribs have shared their sixth album, For All My Sisters, online in full ahead of its official release. Listen below.
The album, which is their first for new label Sonic Blew / Sony Red, is officially out on 23 March - but they've treated fans to a preview a week early, which you can listen to via The Guardian here.
The band also gave The Guardian a track by track guide. On album opener 'Finally Free', for example, Gary Jarman said, "We were in the middle of demoing the album, and about to head to NYC to record after we had finished our live commitments, but right at the end of the trip I was admitted to hospital and ended up undergoing surgery."
He added, "It looked for a time like I wasn’t going to be able to return to the USA for a while and would have to cancel recording. This was terrifying, and I pledged to myself that if I got out of hospital in time, then this song had to be finished by then ... hence the title."
Watch the video for 'Burning For No One' below
Some of the songs, Jarman also admits, are love songs "to my hopeless youthful crushes. I remember in the early 90s being really infatuated with these sort of androgynous looking women, people like Martika and Demi Moore in Ghost. I think I was in love with Demi Moore’s character Molly Jensen way more than the reality of fancying a film star. Someone who never existed, basically."
For All My Sisters was recorded with The Cars frontman and Weezer producer Ric Ocasek. It'll be available to download on 23 March. The band have also been confirmed to headline Live At Leeds festival.
