The Charlatans announce new Dev Hynes-produced album, share “We Are Love”

Manchester greats The Charlatans have announced We Are Love, their 14th album and first in eight years, which will be out October 31 via BMG. The album was co-produced by Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) and Fred Macpherson, with additional help from previous collaborator Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur). They recorded it at Rockfield Studios in Wales, where they made 1997’s Tellin’ Stories, and at the band’s own Big Mushroom space in Middlewich, Cheshire.

“The whole idea of hauntology and psychogeography is represented by us going back to Rockfield, where so much history has happened for The Charlatans,” says frontman Tim Burgess. “That was important as a way of honoring 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 first single from We Are Love is the title track, which owes a little to fellow Manchester bands New Order and The Smiths. It’s pretty different, sonically, than Charlatans fans might be used to, but it’s a great single. Burgess says it’s “like an open-top car ride in the credits of your favorite movie, driving along the coast to somewhere amazing.”

Listen below.

The Charlatans have UK tour dates in December and those are listed below.

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 – TOUR 2025
December 6 – Leeds, O2 Academy
December 7 – Stoke, Victoria Hall
December 8 – Bath, Forum
December 10 – London, Roundhouse
December 11 – Manchester, Academy
December 12 – Glasgow, Barrowland