Nation of Language share new track, "Under the Water"

"This was the last one to make the cut before we turned the record in. We'd always had a lot of enthusiasm for the track, but the studio schedule had gotten a bit unwieldy over the holidays and an arbitrary deadline had been set to be done with LP4 prior to leaving for a January tour in Australia supporting IDLES," Nation of Language’s Ian Devaney offers this on the song.

"As such we'd turned in the final album mixes for mastering before getting on the plane and I’d resigned myself to saving ‘Under the Water' for some subsequent release down the line. But somewhere over the Pacific Ocean while trying to sequence the album clarity set in that despite our love for rigid adherence to the production calendar, we wanted it on there. So before soundchecks on the other side of the planet we hooked up all the synths we’d brought with us in the greenroom, remotely concocting the version you hear now. If it somehow sounds distinctly of the southern hemisphere, now you’ll all know why."

Nation of Language are set to embark on a North America, EU & UK tour, which includes three hometown album release shows at the Warsaw in Brooklyn, NY (18-20 Sep), and their largest UK and EU headline appearances to date at The Roundhouse in London (8 Nov) and Columbiahalle in Berlin (21 Nov).

The forthcoming release follows Nation of Language’s first three albums, Introduction, Presence (2020), A Way Forward (2021), and Strange Disciple (2023).