Twenty years on from Making Dens, Mystery Jets are making their most ambitious album yet

Mystery Jets have announced their eighth album A Hole To See The Sky Through, due 21st August via Fiction Records, alongside two new singles: the title track and the brooding ‘Black Sage’.

The album arrives twenty years after Making Dens, the off-kilter debut that established the band’s instinct for restless, intelligent indie pop. It was produced by Leo Abrahams, whose credits include Brian Eno, Wild Beasts and Frightened Rabbit, at his East London studio.

The title is borrowed from Yoko Ono’s minimalist artwork of the same name: a simple white postcard with a circle cut out of its centre. Ono granted personal permission for the work to be replicated on the album cover, a significant endorsement that speaks to the ambition behind the project.

The nine-track album opens and closes with different versions of the title track, bookending a set that also includes ‘Doomsday Waltz’, ‘God Rays’, ‘Flea Joint’, ‘Long Lonely Road’, ‘Soul River’ and ‘Anaglypta’. ‘Black Sage’ is accompanied by a live session recorded at the Sky Space, the immersive light installation by artist James Turrell.

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A Hole To See The Sky Through is out 21st August via Fiction Records.

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