The Pastels announce new album, stream video trailer
20 February 2013, 10:01
| Written by
Luke Morgan Britton
Glasgow’s The Pastels return with their first album proper since 1997.
Following on from that year’s Illumination, new record Slow Summits will be the band’s fifth studio release to date.
It’ll be released on 27 May, before the band play a hometown show on 1 June and head to Green Man festival in the summer.
Check out a video trailer to the release, beneath the tracklisting below:
1 Secret Music
2 Night Time Made Us
3 Check My Heart
4 Summer Rain
5 After Image
6 Kicking Leaves
7 Wrong Light
8 Slow Summits
9 Come to the Dance
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