In about three weeks (Monday December 18), Cage the Elephant will release their new album Tell Me I’m Pretty via Columbia Records. So an announcement for a string of February shows in the UK and across Europe in 2016 is their next appropriate action.

These gigs will be the first since the band last played with Foals at Alexandra Palace in February 2014. The five piece will be hitting venues like Bierkeller in Bristol, Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, Underground in Colonge, Germany and Vega Small Hall in Copenhagen in February 2016.

Tell Me I’m Pretty was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs, mixed by Tom Elmhirst and recorded at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cage the Elephant have unveiled their new track ‘Trouble’. You can listen to it now below:

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2016 Gig Dates:

12 February - Bierkeller - Bristol, UK                                  

13 February - Shepherd’s Bush Empire - London, UK                                  

14 February - Rescue Rooms - Nottingham, UK                          

15 February - Riverside - Newcastle, UK

16 February - QMU - Glasgow, UK                                

18 February - Academy 2 - Liverpool, UK

19 February - Unity Works - Wakefield, UK

20 February - Academy 2 - Manchester, UK

23 February - Underground - Cologne, Germany

24 February - Melkweg Old Hall - Amsterdam, Netherlands                           

25 February - PBHFCLUB - Berlin, Germany                                   

26 February - Vega Small Hall - Copenhagen, Denmark                         

It’s been half a decade since The Coral last released a new LP, but thankfully they are back next year with Distance Between.

The eighth studio album will be out on Friday March 4 via Ignition Records. Backing up this release will be a UK tour, which includes a London show at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Wednesday March 16 and a headline show at Liverpool Sound City on May 29.

Distance Between follows on from 2010’s Butterfly House. Recorded live at Liverpool’s Parr Street Studio with co-producer Richard Turvey, it was mostly recorded in one take. The album is dedicated to Alan Wills, The Coral’s early mentor and Deltasonic label boss who lost his life in 2014.

On their latest venture, lead vocalist and guitarist James Skelly explains: "Before we started making the album we had discussed that we wanted it to be more minimal and rhythmical.

“We thought ‘if you've got a rhythm section that’s been playing together for almost twenty years, why not make that the centre of the songs?’"

Dates for the bands 2016 UK tour can be seen below. Tickets go on sale 9am on Friday November 27.

In the mean time, you check out the trailer for Distance between below:

Distance Between tracklisting:

Connector

White Bird

Chasing The Tail Of A Dream

Distance Inbetween

Million Eyes

Miss Fortune

Beyond The Sun

It’s You

Holy Revelation

She Runs The River

Fear Machine

End Credits

UK Tour 2016:

Fri 4th March Newcastle Riverside

Sat 5th March Glasgow O2 ABC

Mon 7th March Leeds Brudenell Social Club

Tues 8th March Nottingham Rescue Rooms

Thurs 10th March Birmingham O2 Institute2

Fri 11th March Sheffield Leadmill

Sat 12th March Manchester Albert Hall

Tues 15th March Oxford O2 Academy 2

Wed 16th March London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Sun 29th May Liverpool Sound City – Headline show