Brian Molko’s band will release its eighth album on March 25, 2022. For now, we can enjoy them in visualisers of ‘Surronded by Spies’ and ‘Beautiful James’
Placebo announced details of the long-awaited new album. Nine years after the release of their last work ‘Loud Like Love’, the band’s eighth studio album titled ‘Never Let Me Go’ will arrive on March 25, 2022.
1 – Forever Chemicals; 2 – Beautiful James; 3 – Hugz; 4 – Happy Birthday In The Sky; 5 – The Prodigal; 6 – Surrounded By Spies; 7 – Try Better Next Time; 8 – Sad White Reggae; 9 – Twin Demons; 10 – Chemtrails; 11 – This Is What You Wanted; 12 – Went Missing; 13 – Fix Yourself.
You can listen to the first new single ‘Surrounded by Spies’ here below in a “visualizer” format:
Last September, Placebo broke a long silence by releasing ‘Beautiful James’ their first single in five years, as well as the first anticipation of the eighth album. You can listen here below:
Placebo’s message and voice sound more relevant and appropriate today than ever before. In ‘Surrounded By Spies,’ a magnetic track that slowly wears away, the band doesn’t mince words and addresses to the erosion of civil liberty, while Brian Molko’s voice provokes a sense of claustrophobia, as if the walls were closing in around us.
Brian Molko himself comments: «I started writing this lyric when I found out that the neighbors were spying on me on behalf of someone with a crazy plan. Then I began to reflect on the myriad ways in which our privacy has been compromised and taken away from us altogether with the introduction of CCTV cameras now using racist facial recognition technologies, the arrival of the internet and cell phones, which have turned virtually everyone into paparazzi or spectators of their own lives, and how almost all of us have given access to our information to multinational giants whose sole purpose is to exploit us.»
Molko adds: «I used the cut-up technique invented by William S. Burroughs and made famous in modern music by David Bowie. It’s a true story told through a veil of paranoia and contempt for the values of modern society and the deification of surveillance capitalism. The narrator is at his wits end, desperate and frightened, completely at odds with the new progress and the god of money.»
October 2022
Sat 1 – Frankfurt, Germany – Festhalle
Tue 4 – Stuttgart, Germany – Schleyerhalle
Thu 6 – Berlin, Germany – Mercedes-Benz Arena
Sat 8 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
Mon 10 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
Tue 11 – Stockholm, Sweden – Cirkus
Thu 13 – Helsinki, Finland – Ice Hall Black Box
Fri 14 – Tallin, Estonia – Saku Arena Black Box
Mon 17 – Warsaw, Poland – Expo XXI Hall 3
Wed 19 – Leipzig, Germany – Quarterback Immobilien Arena
Sat 22 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclaycard Arena
Mon 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
Wed 26 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle
Thu 27 – Milan, Italy – Mediolanum Forum
Sat 29 – Zurich, Switzerland – Samsung Hall
Mon 31 – Prague, Czech Republic – O2 Universum
November 2022
Wed 2 – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle
Fri 4 – Esch El Azette, Luxembourg – Rockhal
Mon 7 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena
Tue 8 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis
Thu 10 – Nancy, France – Zenith
Fri 11 – Paris, France – Accorhotels Arena
Sun 13 – Bordeaux, France – Arkea Arena
Mon 14 – Rennes, France – La Liberte
Fri 18 – Portsmouth, UK – Guildhall
Sat 19 – Brighton, UK – Brighton Centre
Mon 21 – Liverpool, UK – Eventim Olympia
Tue 22 – Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse
Thu 24 – Cardiff, UK – Motorpoint Arena
Sat 26 – London, UK – O2 Brixton Academy
Sun 27 – London, UK – O2 Brixton Academy
Tue 29 – Leicester, UK – De Montford Hall
Wed 30 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy
December 2022
Fri 2 – Newcastle, UK – O2 City Hall
Sat 3 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy
Mon 5 – Dublin, Ireland – 3 Arena
Wed 7 – Cambridge, UK – Corn Exchange
Thu 8 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy 1
