Mystery Jets Announce New Album 'A Hole To See The Sky Through' and Drop Title Track
Mystery Jets are back with a new album, 'A Hole To See The Sky Through,' inspired by Yoko Ono's artwork. The band has also released the title track, offering a glimpse into their introspective new direction.
The Mystery Jets have officially announced their forthcoming album, ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through,’ accompanied by the release of its evocative title track. Check it out below.
Following their 2020 release, ‘A Billion Heartbeats,’ the band hinted at a new era with the recent single ‘Black Sage.’ Now, their seventh studio album, ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through,’ is slated for release on August 21 via Fiction Records. Pre-orders and pre-saves are available here.
The album's title is inspired by Yoko Ono’s minimalist artwork of the same name. With special permission from Ono herself, the album will feature the original artwork. A press release describes the album as an intentional gaze "back up from the void, to the cosmic again".
Alongside the album announcement, the band has shared the opening track and title piece, ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through I.’ Listen to it here:
Like ‘Black Sage,’ the new track is accompanied by a live performance video filmed at the James Turrell Skyspace at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.
The album's creation followed the release of ‘A Billion Heartbeats,’ which delved into culture wars, protests, and offered a street-level perspective.
In a four-star review, NME praised ‘A Billion Heartbeats’ as "a wildly successful take on the world at large as the band enter a new decade," noting its protest songs and celebrations of the NHS. The upcoming album promises further reflections on trauma, freedom, and forgiveness.
Frontman Blaine Harrison shared that the core message of ‘Black Sage’ is that healing is “inseparable from suffering,” adding, “there is beauty to be found in the broken.”
He continued, “We’ve not written that way since the very earliest days of the band, so we knew it had to be the first track to share from this new chapter.”
‘A Hole To See The Sky Through’ album artwork
‘A Hole To See The Sky Through’ tracklist:
‘A Hole To See The Sky Through I’
‘Black Sage’
‘Doomsday Waltz’
‘God Rays’
‘Flea Joint’
‘Long Lonely Road’
‘Soul River’
‘Anaglypta’
‘A Hole To See The Sky Through II’
In 2022, the band’s bassist, Jack Flanagan, embarked on a solo career, releasing the album ‘Rides The Sky,’ which featured the single ‘Skyhorse X Skyhorse.’
Mystery Jets also released a covers album, ‘Home Protests,’ in 2020. Reflecting on recording the album during lockdown, the band stated: “As the world ground to a halt, with global lockdowns and illnesses, we continued to protest from our homes: recording lo-fi live covers of nine timeless tracks spanning the last half-century.
“Songs tackling perennial issues from discrimination and homelessness to war, consumer capitalism, and environmental destruction.”
The Mystery Jets are scheduled to perform at The Maccabees’ show at Leeds’ Kirkstall Abbey on July 31, alongside Maximo Park and Everything Everything.
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