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Carl Barat has announced a new single 'A Storm Is Coming', taken from his debut album with new band The Jackals, Let It Reign. Listen to the track below.
Following on from his first single 'Glory Days' and stunning headline performance for Gigwise at London's 100 Club, the track is the second single to be taken from Barat's new album.
Produced by The Bronx's Joby J Ford, it's a rambunctious garage rock with references to William Blake, the questioning of identity and is packing full of foreboding - Barat in particular sounds like a sort of indie rock Travis Bickle.
Listen: Carl Barat and The Jackals 'A Storm Is Coming'
Carl Barat and the Jackals recently announced the following eleven American shows for March with a UK tour to follow shortly.
MARCH
7th Vancouver, BC Electric Owl
9th Seattle, WA The Crocodile
10th Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
11th San Francisco, CA The Independent
13th San Diego, CA The Casbah
14th Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
15th Santa Ana, CA Constellation
23rd Atlanta, GA Masquerade
26th Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel
28th Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
30th New York, NY Studio @ Webster Hall
Let It Reign will be released on 16 February. The full track listing for the album is:
Glory Days
Victory Gin
Summer In The Trenches
A Storm Is Coming
Beginning To See
March Of The Idle
We Want More
War Of The Roses
The Gears
Let It Rain
The King Is Me (iTunes Bonus Track)
Gigwise recently caught up with Barat to talk about the trials and tribulations of releasing a new album in 2015. Watch the video below.
Barat and his fellow Libertines recently signed a new record deal with Virgin EMI, meaning that we can expect the third Libertines studio album later this year. Barat said of the announcement: "After everything we have been through The Albion sails on course again, and we couldn't be more excited. This signals a new era and a new beginning for The Libertines."
The band are also strongly rumoured to be headlining at Glastonbury this summer.
