Yoko Ono approves cover art as Mystery Jets share A Hole To See The Sky Through album details

The cover art features a white postcard with a circle cut out – for which the band secured special permission from Ono herself.

Following last week’s single “Black Sage”, the new track is accompanied by a live performance video filmed at the James Turrell Skyspace in Cornwall. Both videos were directed by James Slater, whose previous credits include work with Yard Act, Blossoms and Sam Fender. The band has also shared the opening track and title piece, “A Hole To See The Sky Through I”.

A Hole To See The Sky Through was written over several years following the band’s 2020 release, then recorded with producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Wild Beasts) at his East London studio. According to the band, the LP completes a thematic trilogy. Where 2016’s Curve of the Earth was “written from the skies, looking back down”, and 2020’s A Billion Heartbeats adopted a “street-level perspective” on culture wars and protests, the new collection of songs casts its gaze “back up from the void, to the cosmic again”.

Formed on Eel Pie Island in the early 2000s, Mystery Jets have built a reputation for eccentric songwriting and a blend of indie rock, psychedelic pop and progressive influences. The band are also marking 20 years of their debut Making Dens and a decade of Curve of the Earth.

The nine-track record includes the previously shared “Black Sage” and two parts of the title piece – “A Hole To See The Sky Through I” and “A Hole To See The Sky Through II”.

A Hole To See The Sky Through artwork

A Hole To See The Sky Through tracklist

“A Hole To See The Sky Through I”
“Black Sage”
“Doomsday Waltz”
“God Rays”
“Flea Joint”
“Long Lonely Road”
“Soul River”
“Anaglypta”
“A Hole To See The Sky Through II”