The Wedding Present announce album and UK tour

Seminal indie shufflers The Wedding Present release their eigth studio album, El Rey, on May 26.

The album has been recorded at Chicago's Electrical Audio with Steve Albini - who last collaborated with the group on 1991's Seamonsters LP - and is preceded by a digital single, 'The Thing I Like Best About Him Is His Girlfriend', available for download through label Vibrant.

Speaking to MOJO, frontman David Gedge revealed: “I’ve been living in West Hollywood for the last year or so, and while I’m not going to claim that this is my ‘L.A.’ album, there are some references, I suppose.

"The album themes are lust, jealousy, betrayal, regret, obsession, super-heroes… the usual! We chose to record with Steve this time because the new songs were sounding very guitarry and quite dark. It’s been good. As you’d imagine, really; Albini knows his stuff”.

The tracklisting looks a lot like this:

In addition the band will be playing the following UK dates:

May

26 Exeter The Hub*
27 Shrewsbury Buttermarket*
29 Norwich Waterfront*
30 Brighton Corn Exchange*

July

25 Swindon 12 Bar
26 Ripley Indietracks Festival
27 Blackpool Tower Lounge

September

5 Isle Of Wight Bestival

* w/ Dawn Landes