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Following on from a surprise set at the iconic Reading Festival a few weeks ago, UK indie royalty Bombay Bicycle Club have revealed their latest single ‘Turn The World On‘, and to mark the release have also revealed the official video clip.

‘Turn The World On’ was penned as an intimate reflection on frontman Jack Steadman’s experience becoming a parent for the first time and the hopefulness of youth. The new single is reminiscent of Bombay Bicycle Club’s 2010 record, Flaws, in it’s folk sensibilities and a breezy melody, but with a maturity and refinement indicative of a band creating their best work to date.

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Bombay Bicycle Club have been writing songs for Saturday nights and songs for Sunday mornings since their mid-teens. To to this day the band remain one of the most inventive, insistent and, arguably, influential British guitar bands of the past generation says much to their powers of reinvention. But it also speaks to the band’s effortless ear for a melody and the masters of its deployment.

Heading back to the band’s studio in London, Bombay Bicycle Club have lovingly crafted album six – My Big Day – set for release on 20 October 2023. It’s a powerful, expansive body of work, replete with an irrepressible dose of joy too. Whilst the guests came and went as they pleased, the band posited themselves on both sides of the glass for this record, with frontman Jack Steadman manning the production chair for most of the record and mixed by Dave Fridmann (renowned for his work with The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT, HAIM).

From exciting new faces to global legends – few artists are held in such high regard and can pull in such varied, impressive names, writing music that appeals to the likes of Damon Albarn, Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya and Holly Humberstone who all lend their voices to the record, with a fifth special guest to be announced very soon. Their broad range of appeal speaks to an eclecticism that also enables them to fit easily on festival line-ups with audiences as diverse as Reading & Leeds and Womad – only a few weeks ago the band played a secret surprise set at Reading Festival on the Radio One Dance Stage, and also took their magical live show to Belgium’s Pukkelpop and The Netherlands Lowlands Festival.

Over their 15 year career, the band have proven time and time again their mainstream appeal and a lasting impact on mainstream culture, with 4 albums Top 10 in the UK album chart including a #1 with So Long, See You Tomorrow, Mercury Prize nominations, Ivor Novello Album Awards, consistent singles playlisted on BBC Radio One, and recent sold out shows at Crystal Palace Bowl, two nights at Alexandra Palace, and headline appearances at All Points East & Latitude Festival.

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‘TURN THE WORLD ON’
– BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
Out now everywhere via AWAL
LISTEN / WATCH

MY BIG DAY
Track List

Just A Little More Time
I Want To Be Your Only Pet
Sleepless (feat. Jay Som)
My Big Day
Turn The World On
Meditate (feat. Nilüfer Yanya)
Rural Radio Predicts The Rapture
Heaven (feat. Damon Albarn)
Tekken 2 (feat. Special Guest)
Diving (feat. Holly Humberstone)

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About BOMBAY BICYCLE

Bombay Bicycle Club have been writing songs for Saturday nights and songs for Sunday mornings since their mid-teens. That they’re now barely in their thirties and remain one of the most inventive, insistent and, arguably, influential British guitar bands of the past generation says much to their powers of reinvention. But it also speaks to the band’s effortless ear for a melody and the masters of its deployment.

In 2009, a fresh-faced Bombay Bicycle Club released their debut album, I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose. It’s a record that the band’s earliest adopters swear by, the soundtrack to very specific moments in their life, and with vivid memories to boot. A visceral record, teeming with teenage angst and youthful abandonment. Songs that spoke to thousands, and a heart on its sleeve statement of this young band’s intent.

It was followed by 2010’s Flaws and a total change of pace and perspective. A long-drawn inhalation of a record, with a relaxed exhalation. It charted in the UK top 10, and everyone who had them pegged as a relentless bunch of boisterous young noiseniks were given something to think about.

By 2011, and now fully in their stride, the band turned left once more to deliver A Different Kind Of Fix. It was a record that took, sonically at least, two big steps forward. An imaginative, but no less infectious collection of oddball pop songs that spawned the likes of ‘Shuffle‘ and ‘How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep’, and painted Bombay Bicycle Club in vivid splashes of colour.

Three years passed before the band reappeared with So Long, See You Tomorrow in 2014. A real “Greatest Hits” of a record, the likes of ‘Carry Me‘, ‘Luna‘, ‘Feel‘ all providing texture and leftfield rhythms that suggested a band in their absolute prime and at their heights of invention.

At this stage, ten years into their careers but still only 24, the band took a quick break. A five-year break. Did different things, with different people. But they missed each other, they missed being Bombay Bicycle Club.

So… In late 2019, Bombay Bicycle Club reintroduced themselves with the incessant earworm, Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You). It sounded like classic Bombay – a leftfield pop song that lodged in the cranium with little signs of abating. The track preceded 2020’s Everything Else Has Gone Wrong LP. Alongside US producer John Congleton, it felt like a triumphant return for a band that were never in danger of being replaced.

As the confetti fell on two nights at London’s Alexandra Palace soon after the record’s release, word spread of a virus of some description. Plans were put on ice and then shelved altogether. A return cut frustratingly short.

Until now… Heading back to the band’s studio in London, Bombay Bicycle Club have lovingly crafted album six – My Big Day. It’s a powerful, expansive body of work, replete with an irrepressible dose of joy too.

My Big Day also found the band’s studio door wedged open for a collaborative experience, inviting the likes of Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya, Holly Humberstone and Damon Albarn who all feature. There’s a special guest appearance to be revealed later in the year too.

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AMNPLIFY – ML