Echo & The Bunnymen’s 11th studio album Meteorites is a return to form, and is set for release in Europe one week from today, the band this morning began streaming the record which frontman Ian “Mac the Mouth” McCulloch, in typical classic form, refers to as being ”more edgy than anything I’ve ever done” — in full via both The Guardian in the U.K. and VPRO in the Netherlands.
Below is the VPRO stream below, let us know what you think.
The album will be released in the U.S. a week later, on June 3.
The Bunnymen are set to tour both the U.K. and U.S. in support of the new album, however the U.K. dates were just pushed back while McCulloch recovers from a throat infection.
The Bunnymen are set to tour both the U.K. and U.S. in support of the new album, however some of the U.K. dates were just pushed back while McCulloch recovers from a throat infection.
Echo & The Bunnymen tour dates:
UNITED KINGDOM
May 11: Wulfurn Hall, Wolverhampton, UK
May 13: Tyne Theatre, Newcastle, UK
May 14: Ritz, Manchester, UK
May 16: Queens Hall, Edinburgh, UK
May 17: Sheperds Bush Empire, London, UK
May 18: Academy, Bristol, UK
May 20: Philharmonic, Liverpool, UK
June 7: Ritz, Manchester, UK
June 8: Sheperds Bush Empire, London, UK
June 10: Academy, Bristol, UK
June 11: Queens Hall, Edinburgh, UK
July 3: Wulfurn Hall, Wolverhampton, UK
July 4: Hop Farm Festival, Paddock Wood, Kent, UK
NORTH AMERICA
Aug. 1: Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Aug. 2: Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
Aug. 4: Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
Aug. 5: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, B.C.
Aug. 6: Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA
Aug. 9: First Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Aug. 10: Metro, Chicago, IL
Aug. 11: St. Andrews Hall, Detroit, MI
Aug. 12: Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
Aug. 14: Paradise Rock Cliub, Boston, MA
Aug. 16: Irving Plaza, New York, NY
Aug. 17: Irving Plaza, New York, NY
Aug. 18: The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD
Aug. 19: Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
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