While Echo and the Bunnymen have been a steady presence on the road for years, the English rockers have yet to release an album since 2014’s Meteorites. That will change on September 18 with Apples for Isaac, their first LP in 12 years. Check out the animated video for first single “Brussels Is Haunted” below.
“The mighty, legendary ClemBurke—longtime friend of Mac—was integral to the making of the album and heartbreakingly passed away duringits completion… love you Clem X,” the band wrote in a statement.
In a recent interview with Mojo, Echo co-founder and lead singer Ian McCulloch spoke further about the long delay between albums. “What kept us? I think Covid had something to do with it,” he said. “But also I just wanted, lyrically, for everything to make sense—or to be cryptically important. Which is a hell of a sentence.” McCulloch added that “more than any other record I can remember, it’s actually sounding how I heard it in my head. I’ve just gone, sing it how you want to hear it.”
Apples for Isaac
01 Take Me By The Hand
02 Can’t Be Sold
03 Brussels Is Haunted
04 I’ll Be Your Sunshine
05 Hijacked
06 The Honey
07 Unstoppable Force
08 The Light That Surrounds You
09 Lab Rats Ran
10 Asimov
11 We Prayed In The Dark