Lanterns on the Lake are back with news of their first album in three years, There’s a Bird in My Ribcage, alongside a new single and a spring 2027 UK headline tour.

The Mercury-nominated Newcastle outfit will release their new LP on March 19 via their own newly launched label, Dust & Matter, marking their first full-length release since 2023’s “Versions of Us”. Leading the way is “Freeze Frame”, an expansive, immediately driven track that finds the band exploring the importance of those seemingly ordinary moments that stay with us.

Frontwoman Hazel Wilde describes the single as being about experiences so vivid that you wish you could stop time, only to realise later just how much they meant. It’s a fitting introduction to a record Wilde describes as “a refusal to go numb”, exploring the desire for something meaningful in an increasingly distracted world.

Recorded largely live in a Northumberland church hall, with additional sessions in their home base of North Shields, the album promises a more immediate, stripped-back approach without losing the atmospheric qualities that have made the band such a distinctive and vital presence.

There’s a Bird in My Ribcage album artwork

The announcement also brings a welcome run of UK dates for next spring, including a hometown show at Newcastle’s Boiler Shop and a London appearance at EaRTH, see all dates below.

Live UK Dates 2027:

28 APR – Concorde 2, Brighton
29 APR – Storeys Field Centre, Cambridge
30 APR – Thekla, Bristol
06 MAY – Oran Mor, Glasgow
07 MAY – Boiler Shop, Newcastle
08 MAY – New Century Locker, Manchester
13 MAY – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
14 MAY – EaRTH, London
16 MAY – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

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