This proper announcement comes after last year's "Dead Alive" single and its related teasers, and will be the celebrated band's first new album since 2012's Port Of Morrow.

It's hardly been a secret that James Mercer & Co. were preparing a new LP, especially after they debuted new music at last year's End Of The Road Festival.

Heartworms is written solely by Mercer, and is the first self-produced (except "So Now What", prod. Richard Swift) since 2001's Oh, Inverted World.

New single "Name For You" is described as "a resounding call for female empowerment inspired by Mercer’s three daughters."

As well as the song and album news, The Shins are set to embark on a world tour. Mercer will be joined by Yuuki Matthews (bass), Jon Sortland (drums), Mark Watrous (guitar, keys, vocals), Casey Foubert (guitar) and Patti King (keys) for upcoming live dates, which you can find out more about here.

“I’m really excited about this record," Mercer said in an interview last year. "We had a good time making it. It was a lot of hard work, but I think we’ve got something that Shins fans will really love and I think there’s some other things on there that are just different enough. I made a concerted effort on certain songs to fit the palate, or to use the palate that I’ve used historically for the band. And then on other songs, I really jumped off because I was having so much fun just leaning some new tools that I had at my disposal like arpeggiators and things."

Tracklist:

1. Name For You
2. Painting A Hole
3. Cherry Hearts
4. Fantasy Island
5. Mildenhall
6. Rubber Ballz
7. Half A Million
8. Dead Alive
9. Heartworms
10. So Now What
11. The Fear