The Enemy have introduced their first album in additional than a decade.
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The Coventry trio will launch their long-awaited fourth studio album, Social Disguises, on February 20, 2026 – marking their first full-length venture since 2015’s It’s Computerized.
For followers of their blistering debut We’ll Reside And Die In These Cities, this new chapter guarantees a return to kind with recent emotional depth.
Reuniting in 2022 with their authentic lineup – Tom Clarke (vocals/guitar), Andy Hopkins (bass), and Liam Watts (drums) – The Enemy have spent the previous few years reigniting their stay firepower with sold-out headline reveals, competition slots, and a run on the Indie Til I Die tour alongside The Subways and The Holloways.
Behind the scenes, they had been crafting Social Disguises, a document designed to recapture the uncooked vitality and youthful urgency of their early days, whereas reflecting the hard-earned knowledge of a band that’s weathered the trade’s highs and lows.
Produced by longtime collaborator Matt Terry – who beforehand helmed fan favorite 40 Days and 40 Nights and the High 20 hit No Time For Tears – the album is the results of two years of intense artistic work.
Clarke mentioned: “We tried to make this album in the identical mind set that we made our first.
“It took a yr to put in writing, round 90 demos, and one other yr within the studio. I am very happy with it. All of us are.”
The primary single, Not Going Your Means, drops subsequent Friday (31.10.25) and channels the identical anthemic grit that made tracks like Away From Right here and We’ll Reside And Die In These Cities indie staples. However Social Disguises additionally sees Clarke exploring new lyrical terrain – from grownup autism analysis and relationship misfires to cultural dislocation and private remorse.
Pre-orders are actually stay through the band’s official retailer, with a variety of unique codecs on supply: a signed, prolonged 20-track vinyl, orange vinyl, cassette, and restricted signed check pressings. Commonplace CD, black vinyl, and a deluxe CD with 4 bonus tracks spherical out the gathering.
The Enemy have introduced their first album in additional than a decade.
The Coventry trio will launch their long-awaited fourth studio album, Social Disguises, on February 20, 2026 —marking their first full-length venture since 2015’s It’s Computerized.
For followers of their blistering debut We’ll Reside And Die In These Cities, this new chapter guarantees a return to kind with recent emotional depth.
Reuniting in 2022 with their authentic lineup – Tom Clarke (vocals/guitar), Andy Hopkins (bass), and Liam Watts (drums) – The Enemy have spent the previous few years reigniting their stay firepower with sold-out headline reveals, competition slots, and a run on the Indie Til I Die tour alongside The Subways and The Holloways.
Behind the scenes, they had been crafting Social Disguises, a document designed to recapture the uncooked vitality and youthful urgency of their early days, whereas reflecting the hard-earned knowledge of a band that’s weathered the trade’s highs and lows.
Produced by longtime collaborator Matt Terry – who beforehand helmed fan favorite 40 Days and 40 Nights and the High 20 hit No Time For Tears – the album is the results of two years of intense artistic work.
Clarke mentioned: “We tried to make this album in the identical mind set that we made our first.
“It took a yr to put in writing, round 90 demos, and one other yr within the studio. I am very happy with it. All of us are.”
The primary single, Not Going Your Means, drops subsequent Friday (31.10.25) and channels the identical anthemic grit that made tracks like Away From Right here and We’ll Reside And Die In These Cities indie staples. However Social Disguises additionally sees Clarke exploring new lyrical terrain – from grownup autism analysis and relationship misfires to cultural dislocation and private remorse.
Pre-orders are actually stay through the band’s official retailer, with a variety of unique codecs on supply: a signed, prolonged 20-track vinyl, orange vinyl, cassette, and restricted signed check pressings. Commonplace CD, black vinyl, and a deluxe CD with 4 bonus tracks spherical out the gathering.
On the stay entrance, the band will wrap their headline tour with two homecoming reveals at Coventry’s HMV Empire in November. Subsequent yr, The Enemy will help Ocean Color Scene on their autumn area tour, with stops together with The O2 in London, Manchester’s AO Enviornment and Glasgow’s OVO Hydro.
Celeste has claimed her document label “threatened to drop her”.
The Cease This Flame hitmaker is gearing as much as launch her new album Lady Of Faces on November 14, however she has alleged that Polydor – who she inked a cope with in 2019 – had been in cohorts together with her over two tracks they needed to be included on the follow-up to her acclaimed 2021 debut Not Your Muse.
Celeste claims she has been hit with “penalties” over the disagreement and has allegedly been instructed to “maintain making” social media content material – or run the danger of shedding their help.
She wrote on her Instagram Story: “I’ve to be trustworthy proper now and say there’s some actually f’d stuff occurring behind the scenes, however I maintain it transferring regardless…
“I’m additionally instructed that if I don’t submit, don’t maintain making ‘content material’, that I gained’t get help from my label.
“I’ve an album popping out on November 14, that I labored actually arduous for it even to return into existence, in opposition to loads of unlucky circumstances.
“I used to be at one level threatened to be dropped if I didn’t put two explicit songs on the album and now I really feel I’m being proven a set of penalties for not doing what I’m instructed.
“Additionally it appears I’m seeing a few of my concepts, and creatives I’ve relationships with, be used on different initiatives extra resourced.”
Not Your Muse noticed Celeste turn into the primary British feminine artist in 5 years to have a primary debut album on the UK Albums Chart.
