Following the announcement of their first new album in seven years, Alter Nature, Dublin avant-rock five-piece, Bats, have shared the second single to be taken from the record, 'Ergot'.

Having formed in 2006, the band released their EP Cruel Sea Scientist in 2007, their debut LP Red In Tooth & Claw, produced by Converge's Kurt Ballou, in 2009 and The Sleep Of Reason, produced by These Arms Are Snakes’ Chris Common in 2012. Sporting their own brand of science inspired metal/post-hardcore and surprisingly danceable post-punk, the band have received critical acclaim from the likes of the Quietus, NME, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, and Rock Sound.

With the forthcoming release of their third studio album Alter Nature, Bats seek to continue their ongoing quest of promoting science and reason while combating superstition and pseudoscience with blastable riffs and existential grooves.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Summoning The Demon

2. Christian Science

3. The Call Of Chtulhu

4. Old Hitler

5. In The Court Of The CRISPR King

6. Ergot

7. Dyson Sphere

8. Family Planning

9. Current Affairs

You can now hear Corridor’s ‘Domino’, a new single and insistent highlight from forthcoming album, Junior. The band’s inventive genius is on full display here, showcasing what might be their best trick – creating singular tunes that are purposeful, full of song-craft, even as they let loose, slip their collar.

Commenting on the track, singer/guitarist Jonathan Robert said: "People are often glorifying what being an Artist or a musician can mean. Art doesn’t necessarily make you a better person. There can be angst, stress and so on. It can have a negative, direct impact on the people closest to you. ‘Domino’ is about navigating just that. It is the first song out of Junior that we’ve composed and we’ve played it live quite a few times already."

The Montreal-based band will release Junior on October 18 worldwide through Sub Pop with the exception of Canada through Bonsound. With Junior, the group make the most dazzling, immediate and inventive album of their young career: 39 minutes of darting and dodging guitars, spiralling vocal harmonies, and the complicated, goldenrod nostalgia of a Sunday mid-afternoon.

'Junior' track list:

1. Topographe

2. Junior

3. Domino

4. Goldie

5. Agent double

6. Microscopie

7. Grand cheval

8. Milan

9. Pow

10. Bang