The Charlatans release 14th studio album 'We Are Love' | OUT NOW

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THE CHARLATANS

RELEASE 14TH STUDIO ALBUM WE ARE LOVE

OUT NOW VIA BMG HERE

The Charlatans today unveil their hotly anticipated 14th studio album We Are Love, out now via BMG. The record includes the BBC 6Music and BBC Radio 2 playlisted singles ‘We Are Love’ and ‘Deeper and Deeper’, which they debuted live on Later… With Jools Holland earlier this month. The band will be heading out on tour to celebrate the release, playing shows across the UK this December and in Spring 2026 - full tour listing below.

An eight year gap between albums is the longest ever for one of the UK’s most enduring bands, but right place, right time, right vibe and the stars eventually aligned. The Charlatans - Tim Burgess (vocals) Martin Blunt (bass), Mark Collins (guitar), Tony Rogers (keyboards), along with Pete Salisbury (drums) - carefully selected a production A-team of duo Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange and Lightspeed Champion) and Fred Macpherson (Spector, Rachel Chinouriri, Jessica Winter, Taahliah), plus legendary producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries), alongside a list of engineers, mixers and collaborators that reads like a who’s who of alt rock greatness. The result has been well worth the wait.

Recorded at two places that are totemic in The Charlatans’ history - Rockfield in Wales and their own Big Mushroom space in Middlewich, Cheshire - Burgess cites hauntology and psychogeography as two concepts that swirled in his head as the band dug into the album making. For one thing, their return to storied farm studio Rockfield for the first time in almost 30 years – since they made fifth album Tellin’ Stories – was an important step. As a band they hadn’t been there since keyboard player Rob Collins was killed, in the middle of that album’s sessions, in a car crash at the bottom of the track leading to the farm. Throughout the record you can hear The Charlatans’ awareness of the stuff that’s made them – the highs and the lows; the desire to honour their own mighty legacy, whilst not being defined by it. A career-long drive to be progressive and innovative.

Tim Burgess explains: “The whole idea of hauntology and psychogeography is represented by us going back to Rockfield, where so much history has happened for The Charlatans. That was important as a way of honouring every member who's played in the band. So we’re honouring ourselves, our past, feeling that energy and reincarnating it, doing something fresh, brand new.”

The Charlatans - We Are Love tracklist:

Kingdom of Ours

We Are Love

Many A Day A Heartache

For The Girls

You Can’t Push The River

Deeper and Deeper

Appetite

Salt Water

Out On Our Own

Glad You Grabbed Me

Now Everything

The Charlatans UK Tour Dates:

6 December – Leeds, O2 Academy

7 December – Stoke, Victoria Hall

8 December – Bath, Forum

10 December – London, Roundhouse

11 December – Manchester, Academy

12 December – Glasgow, Barrowland

24 April – Norwich, UEA

25 April – Brighton, The Dome

26 April – Bournemouth, O2 Academy

28 April – Cardiff, Tramshed

29 April – Nottingham, Rock City

1 May – Birmingham, O2 Academy

2 May – Sheffield, Octagon Centre

3 May – Newcastle, O2 City Hall

5 May – Aberdeen, Music Hall

6 May – Edinburgh, Corn Exchange