Mystery Jets are back on course with new album and taster track, ‘Petty Drone’

Words: Ali Mack

After their new album ‘A Billion Heartbeats’ was postponed last September due to lead singer Blaine Harrison’s ill health, Mystery Jets are now back on course with today's announcement of release of their sixth full-length on April 3.

The band have also unveiled a new track, ‘Petty Drone’, which you can stream now further down.

‘Petty Drone’ is a call to arms, filled with the melodies of 70s Queen and what the band describe as a kind of “psychedelic anger”. The song’s energy belies its dystopian lyrics, inspired by the Adam Curtis' 2016 film HyperNormalisation, and the modern phenomenon of surveillance capitalism: "Ostracised, de-nationalised, re-categorised… polarised, de-sensitised…”

Harrison was living as a property guardian right around the corner from Trafalgar Square where he found himself witness to an entire year of protests in 2017. It was from here that "A Billion Heartbeats", was born. "This album wasn’t about making pointed opinions,” he says. “It was about being a mirror for what’s going on, reflecting back the way people are feeling.”



Live dates

APRIL
10 Academy 2 – Manchester
11 Brewery Arts Centre – Kendal
13 The Wardrobe – Leeds
14 Oran Mor – Glasgow
16 The Caves – Edinburgh
17 The Riverside – Newcastle
19 The Welly – Hull
20 O2 Academy 2 – Leicester
22 O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
24 Trinity – Bristol
25 The Mill – Birmingham
27 O2 Academy – Oxford
29 Concorde 2 – Brighton

MAY
01 Junction – Cambridge